Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cook, a Welshman named David Jones, first seen surviving the sinking of the Titanic. He meets and marries a beautiful Russian immigrant named Ludmila in New York City, resettles in England, volunteers for the army, is mistakenly reported dead in World War I, and so on. Children are born, grow up, fall in love or lechery...
...reached near the top of Hollywood's mostly white, mostly male elite, she maintains that she has no yen to jump to a major studio. Says she: "There really isn't anything out there that I am interested in. I was planted in a garden that allowed me to grow...
...supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...
...been a curious time to grow up in America, and the answer of authority, as espoused by William J. Bennett (who will now redirect his no-saying from financial aid to drugs), was a call for a greater "moral discipline" or a return to the past. Of course what we really need is more attention to the moral questions--not just the old answers--along with the rigorously trained minds and modern educations capable and desirous of reflecting on them. But usually, we've been thinking about something else...
...novel's end, Julian, harboring ambitions to become an actor, is in church listening to Uncle Roy intone the Ten Commandments and thinking that the one prohibiting adultery will be hard to keep. This, and his remark about politicians resembling actors, suggest that Julian may grow up to be a successful public man who gets entangled in a sex scandal. Given Wilson's production rate, it is unlikely that readers will have to wait long to find out. Incline Our Hearts is the first novel of a proposed trilogy. If the next two are as good as the first, readers...