Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long ago, the illicit weekend tryst in the country often demanded more skill at the front desk than in the bedroom. Couples approaching a frowning innkeeper would go into contortions as they twisted school rings around to look like wedding bands and shuffled their suitcases to hide the fact that the initials did not match. But today door men do not wink, porters do not leer, and managers in even the starchiest establishments could not care less if a couple fails to sign in as Mr. and Mrs. - as long as they pay the double-room rate...
...dimensions of the threat are simply stated. This year the twelve OPEC countries stand to run up a trade surplus of $65 billion, v. a mere $7 billion last year, and the money will come out of the financial hide of the rest of the world. Underdeveloped countries that do not happen to be oil producers, such as India, Kenya and Bangladesh, could run up a combined trade deficit of $20 billion or more-if they can beg or borrow the money to pay for oil. The industrialized nations of the non-Communist world, which enjoyed a combined trade surplus...
...says that the St. Clair Stonewall--trying to delay a Supreme Court ruling on the tapes, refusing to cooperate with federal Judge Gerhardt A. Gesell in the "plumbers" trial, hoping to limit the scope of the House impeachment inquiry--gives the impression that Nixon has something to hide...
...School. Professor Dershowitz, said that your defense of President Nixon was that a lawyer gives to a man he believes is guilty. He said that you were delaying and refusing to produce evidence, and that that might give the public the impression that the president had something to hide...
Which suggests that for Philip Roth, a novel has something to do both with telling the jokes that we live and that are all around us and with telling them on the analyst's couch, while trying at once to discover and to hide some essential self. Now Roth has brought Dr. Spielvogel back, and for nothing so much as to minister to writing and writers themselves. If Portnoy's Complaint taught us about a whole new malady through a novel, then My Life as a Man tries to teach us about the malady of the novel itself...