Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, most of the customary groans and hisses were reserved for the slenderest and the newest categories. One judge, Lore Segal, a writer of juveniles, filed a solid minority objection when the children's book prize went to Fantasist Donald Barthelme for his arch and static The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering, Thithering Djinn...
...Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's chief national political strategist, noted the next day, since the Muskie list included contributions from the National Committee for an Effective Congress and the Senate Democratic Campaign Fund, it had better be a list of contributors to his Senate campaign, or else something pretty irregular is going...
...summer-fall Federal Reserve tightness would cripple any chance for a strong advance in 1972. In their view, the board's shift came in the nick of time-or perhaps not quite. Some expect the lag effect of the wide 1971 swings in money-supply growth to cause irregular wobbles in the economy this year...
...Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. Fantasist Barthelme goes through his own looking glass and comes back with a young Alice named Mathilda, some elegant chatter, "a hithering thithering Djinn," and a Chinese lunch that includes sweet and sour ice cream. Most of the pictures-cutouts culled from Victorian-style engravings -are too static for children, though the storm scene (from Gustave Doré's illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) is splendid...
...said that the apparent behavior of Phobos in orbit meant that it could be hollow. That in turn suggested to Shklovskii that the moonlet might be an artificial satellite, lofted into orbit by a long-extinct Martian civilization. Instead, Mariner's photos have revealed that both moonlets are irregular-shaped hunks of rock, pockmarked with craters...