Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush was included and had meaningful tasks to perform. "There was tension, of course," says a Bush friend. "Baker ran Reagan's '84 campaign, and Bush had to take direction from him. That was when Bush was made to travel the low road, and it was obvious that he felt Baker was looking out for Reagan first. That was only proper, of course, but George didn't like it anyway...
...Kesey told his merry pranksters, Be what you are. It didn't matter what, as long as it was what they really felt they were. Being what you are was a revolutionary, radical notion then. Now it is pretty much accepted...
...Reading Bonfire, one felt you were writing about the things going on around us now. Did it give you a jolt to see those things and say, "Hey, that's Chapter...
...typewriter had hardly stopped moving before I picked up the New York Times, and there on Page One was an account of a young investment banker, about the same age as my character, 38, who lost $250 million for his firm in a week. I felt like Alice in Wonderland, running as hard as I can to stay in the same place...
...followed: you must introduce a character, preferably from the streets, who is enlightened and shows everyone the error of his ways, so that by the time the story is over, everyone's heading off wiser. There has to be a moral resolution. Unfortunately, life isn't like that. I felt that if you are going to try to write a novel about New York, you cannot play falsely with the issue of ethnic and racial hostility. You can't invent implausible morality tales and make it all go away in some fictitious fashion...