Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...myths of old-fashioned popular fiction and the folklore of capitalism. It neither blandly accepts them nor blithely satirizes them. Bridges' portrayal of Tucker is in the same key. In the largest sense, he is fully, honestly committed to his dream. But there are lovely little moments when we feel his love of hype and con for their own sake, and sense that whatever the outcome of his enterprise, he knows he has already lifted himself to legendary status...
WHEN you finish reading The Boys and Their Baby, you feel like you're emerging from a movie in which the projector breaks down half way through. The story makes little sense, or at best seems irrelevant. You're not really sure how the plot is going to wind up. The only difference is that with a film the projector usually gets repaired and you can resolve the questions you have. But with The Boys and Their Baby, the novel ends and you're still waiting for more. Five days after you finish it you're still waiting...
...follow his characters into slang or thought disorder not because he identifies with their madness or participates in their emotion, but because he is such a knowledgeable and transparent narrator. From moment to moment, on the level of detail, DeLillo lets the reader understand, but he refuses to feel the material or to give it a larger meaning...
...Carlucci may feel a twinge of envy on his travels in the Soviet Union. While the Pentagon is awash in public procurement scandals, the Soviet armed forces operate behind a veil of secrecy that even insiders cannot always penetrate. Marshal Akhromeyev stunned his hosts during his recent U.S. tour by conceding that military leaders do not know precisely how much the Kremlin spends annually to develop weapons. Procurement as well as research and development is funded by the central government, he said, and the costs do not show up in the military budget. Those two items alone represent close...
...many millions of children today, but they hope John David will find the strength in today and the belief in tomorrow to carry him safely through. "Children need a sense of security," says Mary Louise. "If they don't have that, if they go out there and feel they can't turn to us, then they are lost...