Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could say to myself and to my editor was, why highlight the tragedy again? His rejoinder: Just think, he might have become a burden on society. At the time, the experience was too painful for me to think about, so I resorted to a formula and wrote the cheery, overcoming adversity story. After all, no one wants to read about tragedy in the Farm and Garden section...
...chief hope was that Ford and Sadat would find some formula to set back in motion Kissinger's step-by-step talks between Cairo and Jerusalem. Any final decision on such a move would have to wait until next week, however, when Ford returns to Washington and meets Israel's Premier Yitzhak Rabin for another two days of talks. Whatever the outcome of Ford's delicate negotiations, two things are clear...
...Egyptian President nonetheless remains the dominant Arab spokesman in current moves toward peace negotiations. Preparing to meet next week with President Ford in Salzburg, Sadat wound up a series of visits to Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria in search of an Arab consensus. He found a formula for the knotty problem of Palestinian representation at any future Geneva Conference. King Hussein would represent Jordan; at the same time, however, a Palestinian delegation would be designated, and other Arab states, with support from the Soviets, would press the U.S. to seat it along with Hussein...
...rabbit the symbol of his whole slick fantasy world. But when you're inventing fantasy to entertain your children during a long, boring car trip you leave out the details that enrapture the slavering American male. You retrograde modern romance, back to Northrop Frye's original "love and adventure" formula, away from modern "lust and bloodlust." And you even leave out most of the "love," to concentrate on your heroes-intrepid rabbits surviving against all obstacles. Richard Adams wrote that fantasy and called it Watership Down: it won both British awards for children's fiction in 1972, and then came...
During the past three decades, while other nations have devised all sorts of fancy names for their economic plans, Britain has relied on the ancient formula of "muddling through." As the nation lurched from one economic crisis to another, something-a sudden devaluation of sterling, a new draconian budget, the generosity of foreign lenders -always averted catastrophe at the last moment. Today, the British seem to have run out of expedients to solve their latest and worst crisis. Britain "is going down the drain," says Arthur Burns, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. At last many Britons are becoming...