Word: driftings
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Healey is also concerned about the tendency of wages to drift up even under controls because of unexpected overtime, costly seniority rules and other factors. For example, the present pay policy was calculated to permit earnings to rise only about 10% a year, but they have actually risen at a 13% pace. Thus Healey is not willing to agree to, say, a 4% limit unless the unions can come up with a way to prevent the increase from leading to any significant drift...
...drift of Sherman Yellen's book is that Henry divorced or beheaded wives in quest of a male heir. Actually, there was a son, Edward VI, who died at the age of 16. Scanting the versatile Renaissance man, Yellen paints the portrait of a male chauvinist executioner...
...animals, and dreams blending the two, to people and monsters that grow solely out of people by way of dreams." Since he has devoted large swatches of his life to observing animals in the dwindling American wilderness, Hoagland is saddened by this further evidence of their decline: "As we drift away from any cognizance of them, we sacrifice some of the intricacy and grandeur of life...
Such work is no guarantee of a renaissance. Poets and readers may continue to drift apart; the art may yet degenerate totally into self-therapy. Fame is now reserved for poets who do something else- like writing bestselling novels (Erica Jong, James Dickey). There is no serious living writer whom the reading public gets by heart the way it once learned Frost and Auden. That echo in the brain now comes from rock lyrics and TV jingles. But set against all the reasons for pessimism are the voices, this spring, of these five poets. They show that it is still...
Racing under conditions that were more like Long Island Sound in August than New England in April, the Harvard-Radcliffe sailing teams managed only to drift to a second, third and two last-place finishes last weekend...