Word: harriet
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...novel tells the story of David and Harriet, whom Lessing describes as "conservative, old-fashioned," in the midst of the rebellion of the 1960s. David and Harriet are "made for each other," a fact Lessing makes abundantly clear. The first sentence of the novel informs us that the moment they met, they "knew that this was what they had been waiting...
Like their generation, David and Harriet engage in a rebellion, but it is a reactionary one. They disapprove of the lax morality of their era and the feeling that "the spirit of their times, the greedy and selfish sixties, had been so ready to condemn them...to diminish their best selves...
Lessing has a keen eye for the paradoxes of the free love decade. She notes, not without humor, that Harriet, as a 25-year-old virgin, was treated with the type of bitchy solicitude usualy reserved for women with "loose morals...
...experts who believe that a doctrinal change is in the works contend that since 1986, Soviet analysts have largely ceased calling for military "superiority" and instead use such terms as "parity" and "reasonable sufficiency." Other American experts deny that change is in the air. ) Summarizing that view, Harriet Fast Scott, an author and Government consultant on Soviet military affairs, says, "Reasonable sufficiency means whatever you want it to mean...
...Norrington's vigorous hands, the result was a revelation. The Fantastique, premiered in 1830, just three years after the death of Beethoven, is an opium-tinged odyssey through the composer's psyche as he pursued his mad passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its restless opening, brilliant ballroom scene, desolate pastorale, terrifying march to the scaffold and cackling witches' sabbath bloomed anew, while the 1839 Romeo et Juliette, Shakespeare transformed into sound, burst with hot-blooded vitality...