Word: fends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideas are attractive to you, his book is worth thinking about. It's a collection of nine brief stories, each self-contained and too brief for much character development or even action. Bromell is content to catch the thoughts of his characters and let their personalities and histories fend for themselves. The stories grow on you, reminding you first of things that have already happened to you; later, things that happen seem to echo them...
...Kravitz is a thoroughly lovable character. Richard Dreyfuss is superb in his portrayal of the poor mischievous Jewish boy who sets out to make his mark after his hunched-over bearded grandfather tells him, "A man without land is a nobody." Motherless since the age of six, left to fend for himself by his taxi-cab driving father, ignored by his rich uncle, and taunted by his peers, Duddy determines to win the respect of his grandfather and the rest of his humble neighborhood, a Jewish ghetto in Montreal...
...fair. Operations Manager Eugene Coyle had to fight his way through crowds at the same fair when he arrived at Grand Central. Staff Writer Richard Bernstein, who detailed legal implications of the story, had to race to the bus terminal and tell a visitor that she would have to fend for herself for the rest...
...most demographers contend that even if such an increase occurred, it would be temporary. "Any upturn in the birth rate would be just another fluctuation around the major continuing downward trend," says Philip Hauser, director of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago. "It would fend off zero population growth a little longer, not forever...
...decision with relatively little outside advice. Sternly self-controlled ("I have a fetish about disciplining myself"), he was stiff in public and rarely relaxed in private. As Author Garry Wills maintained in Nixon Agonistes, Nixon erected this "wall of decorum in dress and manner" so that he could "fend off the world, avoid participation...