Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Costa Rica in the early '30s, Betancourt met a lovely, brown-eyed kindergarten teacher named Carmen Valverde. At night they walked, talked politics, fell in love. "He was very fiery," Carmen recalls. But Betancourt spent his days in the university library in San José, reading so endlessly that the librarian finally reserved a regular seat for him. In English, French and Spanish he devoured the standard works of the intellectual left-but did not neglect studying oil trade magazines from the U.S. Suddenly Betancourt decided he was a Communist. Today, irritated at the endless necessity of telling...
Bicycles & Kayaks. Beckmann and Estes are resourceful examples of a special and hardy breed of U.S. citizen: the commuter. Like the U.S. postman, the intrepid commuter lets neither howling storms, nor packed trains, nor jammed highways, nor endless delays keep him from the completion of his appointed rounds between work and home. He is willing to endure all the journey's perils for the sake of pursuing success in the city and the good life-or cheaper living-in the suburbs or exurbs...
When the boys are not in class, they link arms in twos and threes and shuffle through the yards and corridors in a kind of endless walkathon. Always there are the unseen eyes of the attendants, and only the best of them rattle their keys to let the boys know they are coming. The keepers' special concern: sex, natural and unnatural. In a brilliant set piece that has the spectral, hallucinatory quality of a Poe short story, Author Bjarnhof tells of a boy who made contact with the well-guarded girls' wing of the institute. Like ghosts...
...Endless Walkathon. Would-be philanthropic heavens too often become pluperfect hells. Just into his teens, the hero in The Good Light still has partial vision, but the first thing that assails him at the Blind Institute is the smell - paint, sour beer, and wet floor mops. The food is stale bread, dry cheese and gruel that the sightless inmates wolf down like animals. When the boy says good morning to his schoolmates, no one turns a head. He has entered a world in which nothing exists until it is touched...
...been argued that the exam is an irreplaceable part of the lecture-and-syllabus system. Life itself, so the argument runs, is an endless succession of crises in which the educated man is called upon to marshal and organize his knowledge on short notice. Certainly in a course aimed toward the assimiliation of large quantities of factual or semi-factual data, the exam is a successful approximation of such a crisis...