Word: glints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern economics, Touré sought overnight industrialization, instead got overnight bankruptcy. Though he had $92 million in Soviet-bloc credits and the help of 1,200 Red advisers, they were totally unfamiliar with Africa and proved to be of little help. On Conakry's docks, Soviet snowplows still glint in the savage tropical sun, monumental reminders of Red ineptitude...
...dimensions were enough, and for Author Baldwin's aging but still faithful audience, they still are. Now, a wispy woman of 68 with a warm, friendly, electrically operated glint to her eye, she limits herself to 6,000 to 8,000 words a day. She does a monthly "inspirational" column for Woman's Day and one book a year. The women's magazines are declining, and the days of fat prices for serials are over, but the Baldwin prose still reads the same. The married pair in The West Wind are pretty Meg and darkly attractive Davy...
...really want to marry me?' To which foolish question he neither expected nor received anything but a silent answer. And so they lingered in Golden Valley for a short, precious time, while from faraway Barchester came the chime of bells, and the setting sun struck a last glint of light from the most beautiful cathedral spire in England...
...mother singing to her baby, something striking them with bravado, he was a compelling figure. At some points he was consumed with ecstasy; at others he cried out in agony. Sometimes he looked like a harmless, forgotten old man, and then, a minute later, his eyes would glint and he would look like an imp, or a fiend...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...