Word: happier
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This novel, William Golding's tenth, picks up where Rites of Passage (1980) left off. Sequels ordinarily suggest the path of least resistance, the easiest way for a writer to capitalize on past accomplishments. Indeed, Rites of Passage marked one of the happier points of Golding's long career; it won the Booker Prize, England's most prestigious publishing award, and three years later its author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Small wonder that Golding might want to extend a book that earned so much acclaim. The greater surprise is that he succeeds...
...tabloid sensationalism and the gaudy splendors of San Simeon, the firm seems intent on making a good corporate name for itself by sponsoring a seven-part PBS series called The Presidency and the Constitution. William Randolph Hearst Sr. would probably be pleased, but his father George would be even happier, glad that his son never took his advice...
...Judy Davis), who represent the Lawrences in the final years of D.H.'s life, just before he loses his battle against tuberculosis. Fleeing English persecution inflicted because Harriet is a German and Somers writes "pornography," the two set out for a new life in Australia where neither is any happier...
Leslie A. Barbi '88 falls in part into this category because she used to live in Currier while most of her friends lived in Leverett. "I had a lot of friends in Leverett, and I thought I would be happier here," she says. "The distance [from the Quad] is no big deal really, but most of my friends live in Leverett...
...Reagan Administration could not be happier...