Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tool. As a result, the energies of Spencer's narrative remain muted, her conclusion equivocal. Even Lex, from whom violence might have been expected (he once pointed a pistol at a triumphant Arnie on campus), drifts off in a paralysis of frustration and despair. The final chapters echo with questions like those Arnie addresses to the Buddha...
...Beanpot, Bucyk will once again echo through the Garden. The Chief will be there, but he will sit in the stands. The object of his attention--nephew Randy, the captain of the Northeastern Huskies...
...three or four minutes, there was no computer at all steering the orbiter. The failure was an echo of earlier difficulties with the IBM-built machines, including a breakdown that caused a last-minute postponement of the first shuttle flight...
...while the author humbles his proud pair, he also proves to be a tender provider in the end. Wise Virgin (there are none here outside the old manuscript) is both deeper and more compassionate than Wilson's earlier novels, as if he had put aside the temptation to echo Evelyn Waugh's inimitable malice and had found his own balance between light and dark comedy...
...said that a real nuclear war would be much worse. Indeed it would. The documentary on Cambodia probably could also have ended with a statement that the reality was worse. The reality is always worse. TV film does not transmit pain, only an image of pain, a faint visual echo...