Word: fleetingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If Time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality. -
More serious than the fleeting speculation about war were Israeli fears about the political impact of Sadat's appearance before the Knesset. Standing in the Israeli parliament, the Egyptian President would have a unique pulpit. The mere fact of his presence made him, and by extension the Arabs, seem like...
Levanter's life of "blind dates" brings him into contact with a Russian actress, famous scientists, business tycoons, and small-town nymphomaniacs, each of whom occupies as fleeting a part in the novel as they do in Levanter's life.
The kernel of Sadow's devotion to Harvard football is his philosophy that one must live the fleeting, evanescent years of youth to their fullest. He delights in quoting the Robert Burns sonnet: "O man! While in thy early years how prodigal of time, mispending all thy precious hours, thy...
The style has a touch of Raymond Chandler; the Fazenda case has a fleeting similarity to the unsolved 1940s Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles. The novel continually echoes tabloid history to enliven its central incident: a 28-year-old murder known as the "case of the Virgin Tramp."