Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is one of the best short novels ever written because its author, Alan Sillitoe, has the rare gift of capturing working class life in simple, unromanticized prose. It's the story of an English youth in a reform school who purposely loses a cross-country match to be honest; he thought it would be immoral to win the challenge cup merely to please a vain warden--head-master. Sillitoe combines a vivid picture of the routine of lower class life using the loneliness of cross-country running to cultivate his protagonist's spiritual development...
...Stadium, Hank, clad in mufti, slammed a ball into the leftfield bleachers while the crowd chanted: "Aaron, Aaron, Aaron!" Hammerin' Hank even toted along a special present for Oh, who has a peculiar habit of raising his right leg in the air before the pitch. Aaron's gift: a stuffed flamingo...
...hell of a decision. Furious, Ronnie exiled the stubborn boy of 16 to the University of Bern. There David's gift for mimicry and his cassette-recorder ear made him a quick study of foreign tongues. Within a year he had delved into German letters and discovered new modes of expression and thought. "You might say," he claims, "that I rather belatedly developed a second soul...
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey possesses a splendid-some think notorious-gift for Panglossian rhetoric in the face of economic distress. Last week he held forth with customary ebullience on Britain's economic prospects. But this time his optimism was well grounded. In addresses to Common Market finance ministers in Brussels, the Chancellor detailed evidence of solid performance...
Rosh Hashanah last week marked the first day of 5738 according to the Jewish calendar, but it was not a happy new year in Israel. In Egypt, meanwhile, a smiling President Anwar Sadat declared that it was the best gift he had received for Bairam, the joyful Muslim festival that follows the month-long Ramadan fast. The gift-and the cause of Israeli gloom -was a U.S. policy statement issued by the State Department to the effect that Palestinians "must be represented" at any reconvened Geneva peace talks. Coming on the eve of Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan's visit...