Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another proposal is in trouble. The Pittston Co., a big oil-distribution and coal-mining corporation (1972 sales: $625 million), wants to put up a 250,000-bbl.-per-day refinery in East port (pop. 2,000), where Maine meets Canada. Like Durham, Eastport has a glorious, wild shoreline with rocky peninsulas, twisting coves and hidden bays. It also has a deepwater harbor big enough to accommodate today's enormous supertankers. But, unlike Durham, it is a gray and decaying town. Eastport is too far from big cities to be a summer haven for tourists, and so its economy...
...Unlike any other outdoor sport, it allows the mind to unreel and stretch itself. With luck, and time, and endurance, the angler gets the long-awaited result. Out of dark water, the fish flashes to the surface like a new idea-and in that instant the sport justifies its glorious history...
...vejk was first introduced to European readers in the early '20s. Along with Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the book became a popular symbol of the antimilitarism and distrust of glorious causes that flourished between the wars. Published in the U.S. in 1930-with Švejk spelled Schweik-the book, illustrated by Josef Lada, became a bestseller. The editors of that day discreetly excised more than one-third of the text, because of Švejk-Schweik's scatological expressions. This new version by Sir Cecil Parrott of the University of Lancaster translates every excremention...
...just a series of stories and plays, most of which are exactly the same!" There is no reason to regret a bad life if it is "all just a story." Although reluctantly, Prose does allot Isabella a two-sentence demurral to finish the book: she wonders how the Glorious Ones' yearnings for earthly fame fit into the picture...
...credit, Prose should shake loose from the confines of this genre and stamp her own individual form on her writing. She should carve the story lines out of the characters' lives instead of inscribing them to fit well-worn and obtrusive speculations on the meaning of life. Then the glorious ones' real spirit would shine through the scrim of morals she has hung...