Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to be. Almost despite himself, Herlin has managed to create an indelible cast of minor characters. Among the dozen subtly etched survivors are Pikola's estranged wife Thea, an alcoholic who was once "the most touchingly unsuccessful singer who ever appeared on stage to entertain German troops," and the narrator's father Ludwig, who earned his living during the war by printing postcards of soldiers who had won the Iron Cross. All the characters are revealed as victims, afflicted by memories of what they suffered or what they inflicted. But there is one more victim of this...
...just another sub-par football squad. But what distinguishes this year's masquerade ball from those of the past is that the entire Ivy League will be at the same party. Nobody knows how strong anybody else is; no coach will claim to be the favorite, yet almost all entertain some sort of hope that they, indeed, will end up at the top of the heap...
When not occupied with writing, Dean does a lot of reading (mostly nonfiction), helps paint and redecorate the house and landscape the grounds. Finding the heckling unpleasant and the routine wearying, he gave up a lecture tour after six weeks. He and Mo encounter little neighborhood hostility, and entertain with small dinner parties for a tightly knit circle of friends (the best-known: Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. and his wife Susan...
...entrance of Amin, ensconced in a sedan chair toted by four otherwise staid British businessmen who live in Uganda; Big Daddy's 280-lb. bulk, it was jokingly explained, was now "the white man's burden." Amin squeezed out a few tunes on an accordion to entertain his guests and proudly showed off a presidential menagerie that included a crocodile, an ostrich, a leopard and a chimpanzee...
...find it hard to convince the public that we need a substantial defense budget at the same time you entertain these hopes about detente? The people watching TV today, are they going to think if we and the Soviets can cooperate so spectacularly in space, why do we need $100 billion for defense...