Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lovers move easily into a strong sexual friendship. But they are secretive because they have many mutual friends, and neither wants to endure the loss of privacy or the rituals of side taking that would follow full disclosure. Before propriety degenerates to absurdity, David and Elizabeth spend a glorious week together in a cottage in the English countryside. For that week they live happily ever after; then absurdity, in the persons of their respective exes, again obtrudes...
...breezes warm; bid the birds return. In the home of the only professional sports team to win championships across seven decades, spring should be a foregone conclusion. This year's Montreal Canadiens are an honor to the team's glorious past and far superior to the National Hockey League's present. As the Canadiens open their defense of the Stanley Cup this week, they are a solid choice to win their third straight Cup. During the past three seasons, the team has lost only 32 of 267 games, and this year it won 28 straight, breaking...
...political life on her place in history. Had she been born a decade earlier, to use Gornick's own gushing framework, her adolescent crush on the Old Left may have developed into a mature passion. Ten years in the other direction and she could have "realized herself" in the glorious Sixties. Instead, she grew up as a mildly disgruntled member of the silent generation, rousing herself to march sluggishly in the Rear Guard of the New Left. Then feminism revolutionized her life. She re-examined her political roots and the result is The Romance of American Communism...
...expected to fill the 'rents in on the details of life at school: intellectual pursuits stimulating lectures and an exhilerating, whirlwind, cosmopolitan social life. Unfortunately, words fail me here, because much of my life is spent hunched over a typewriter contracting curvature of the spine and shortchanging the glorious intellectual pursuits my family values...
Rewarding and fruitful--despite the long hours of non-glorious toil. That's what being a Harvard manager is all about...