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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The central problem is that few people believe Big Business or Gigantic Government. Volcker of the Fed and Shapiro of Du Pont plus others meet in a posh resort in Hot Springs to speak of "easy money" and "the sooner we suffer the pain, the sooner we will be through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Indeed, Kennedy will need to justify his candidacy with reasons beyond his personality and ambition if he is to hold his lead over Carter in the polls. Already he has suffered some serious slippage against Carter (see following story). But the power of the Kennedy personality still makes him the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: May the Best Man Win | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

And he does, amassing his devastated drilling sites in a collection of short stories called PROBLEMS. If you read them you will probably become depressed. Updike's over-powering stylistic genius overpowers his reader's better judgment, forces him to wallow in the miserableness of his archetypal suburban man, who...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Meaning of a Missing Sock | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

During the night, A, sleeping with B, dreams of C. C stands at the furthest extremity or (if the image is considered two-dimensionally) apogee of a curved driveway, perhaps a dream-refraction of the driveway of the house that had once been their shared home. . .The sleep of B...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Meaning of a Missing Sock | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

No one expects the answer in the teacher's edition, but Updike refuses to provide even a dim peek at his own view of ethical marital allegiances. In short, what point is there in writing if you have no point to make?

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Meaning of a Missing Sock | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

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