Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERZOG, by Saul Bellow. In this long-awaited novel, Bellow's hero is a man in search of a new life amid the rubble of a wrecked marriage. His conclusion is disappointingly flat ("I am what I am"), but in the process of reaching it, Herzog-Bellow ranges wittily, learnedly and perceptively over nearly all the dilemmas-major, minor and plain absurd-of 20th century man in a virtuoso display that is a constant delight...
...interviewed more than 500 persons in its crash investigation, undertaken on orders from President Johnson, and had examined the life of the former White House aide from his Texas boyhood right up to the moment he was last arrested in a Washington Y.M.C.A. washroom. But beyond a flat statement that Jenkins had not been "framed" or "entrapped" (as some of Jenkins' most powerful friends continue to insist), the FBI report said little that was not already known (TIME, Oct. 23) or purely conjectural...
...took up almost all the space that U.S. artists were allotted. Murphy worked tirelessly in a technique as meticulous as his detail. He used airplane linen, painstakingly mocked up his drawing before he picked up a brush. A cigar-box lid in Cocktail (1928), which splays bartenders' tools flat against the picture plane, took him four months to paint...
...thus move the big blocks without upsetting the market price. They also like the bargain rates. Most third market firms keep on hand an inventory of widely traded stocks (Weeden's inventory of 210 listed stocks amounts to about $12 million), which they offer to customers at a flat price based on the exchanges' last quotation plus a small fraction of a point-which nearly always amounts to less than a regular commission...
...much of a literary stylist, Gronow employs a direct but flat prose that captures his subjects like wasps in amber. Yet between the lines, his frigid, faultlessly attired figure dominates the book. He emerges haughty, violently prejudiced, yet worldlywise. As one contemporary wrote: "He committed the greatest of follies without in the slightest disturbing the points of his shirt collar." Can any modern memoirist make the same claim...