Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reading Bits of Paradise, the newly collected group of 22 stories by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, is like breathlessly awaiting, again and again, the arrival of a new star. Often written to fit a magazine's word limits, each of these tightly constructed stories focuses on some young, beautiful person who is convinced of the importance of his destiny. Just as the unassuming Brix Grill in Paris, which Scott describes at the opening of one of the stories, is "one of those places where things happen," the protagonists face life with the calm assurance of starring in their own drama...
With Cambion using illegal tactics to avoid meeting the union's demands, it is regrettable that the Cambridge Police Department has seen fit to provide a police detail, paid overtime wages, to bring strikebreakers into the plant. Individual patrolmen should weigh carefully the moral implications of profiting from participation in strikebreaking activities...
...billed as a parody of conventional soap opera; it was supposed to be funny, but I didn't laugh once. In fact, I thought the whole thing was so silly I almost turned off the set; fortunately, my mother, already an addict, wouldn't let me. In an uncharacteristic fit of tolerance, I agreed to give the program another chance. Within a week, I was hooked. I'd watch the show every night, and when friends dropped over, I'd force them to watch with me, hoping I could turn them on to Mary's neuroses. After a while...
...identified his Deep Tube, he handed his resignation to CBS News President Richard S. Salant. Schorr was afraid that CBS would keep him on until the memory of his ethics committee performance had faded and then quietly fire him. He also thought that he would not be able to fit in easily again at the CBS Washington bureau. "I would doubt my ability to function effectively if reinstated," explained Schorr, who first joined the CBS News staff 23 years ago. "My reinstatement would be a source of tension within an organization whose future success I still care about...
...secret shames: the fact that she produces feverishly romantic gothic novels and her pre-diet-pill memories of a miserably obese childhood. Both are telltale signs of a temperament too florid to suit the doctrinaire, modernist tastes of the men now in her life. One day, seized by a fit of automatic writing while staring at herself in a three-way mirror, she turns out a surreal prose poem called Lady Oracle that becomes a bestseller. Sudden celebrity as the author of Lady Oracle -which publishers promote as an irresistible blend of Rod McKuen and Kahlil Gibran-brings a blackmailer...