Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gone With the Wind...
...surprising that the individual portraits are the most memorable part of Schell's book. He makes his bias clear: "I begin to wish that the walls of these meeting halls could speak, letting me hear the real struggles and human drama which must have gone on within." But he is also aware of the difference between his outlook and that of the Chinese...
Like its hero, The Honourable Schoolboy is all too obviously imperfect. In his effort to detail the slow, agonizing life of the aging spy, le Carre has gone overboard, producing a novel of epic proportions that conveys a theme of only moderate importance. What begins as a portrait of tired, dirty, washed-out and disillusioning reality becomes a frequently tedious chronicle of flatulent, hemmorhoidal and unnecessarily repulsive dreariness. The author uses a bludgeon when a tap on the shoulder would suffice--and heavy-handedness goes beyond his unsubtle attempts to expose the spy game. Le Carre's blatant symbolism...
...Gone Wild...
Many students have gone to the department offices in person to complain about the high tennis court rates, Janus said yesterday, adding that if students begin to complain louder and more often, the current policy stands a change of being revised...