Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone thinks the '60s was glorious, non-stop politics. But the '60s took 10 years to happen. Often we felt that we were in the margins. The movement was a constant search, we were looking for some way to act with integrity and effect. It was not all bigtime jamborees...
...novel...The blockbuster, the apogee of any writing career--putting together words, glorious words and making a veritable film of prose. The novel has been a long-time coming, more than 20 years of flirting with fiction, taking the truth and transforming it into social fairy tales, but always publishing under the realistically lucid umbrella of fact. The result of years with a notebook out there in the jungles of real life, this novel--Bonfire of the Vanities--purports to lend everything a purpose and win the writer a one-way ticket through the annals of literary history. Tom Wolfe...
...commanding curve of wood built last summer by Tobin and his father. It has turned into a challenging arena where amateurs like Tobin can mix it up with seasoned veterans, all of them working up thrombosis- teasing speed as they turn the course and leave the ground, grabbing glorious...
Joseph McNamara, police chief in San Jose, in the drug-ridden Silicon Valley, estimates that his department spends 80% of its time trying to enforce the drug laws. "The fight against drugs for the past 70 years has been one long glorious failure," he says. "The courts are overflowing, there is violence on the streets, and the problem seems to be getting worse...
...like myself cringe at the thought of reading about the 1986 World Series, Angell, a fellow Red Sox supporter, makes his "Not So, Boston" chapter bearable with a detailed recall of Dave Henderson's clutch homer in the American League Championship Series against the Angels and "Rocket" Roger Clemens' glorious summer...