Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearby beach were hacked to death by unknown marauders. With an atmosphere reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Isla Vista is isolated, in spirit as well as in fact. People over 30 are practically nonexistent. Bus service to Santa Barbara is inconvenient and irregular. Since most of the residents are too young to vote, inexperienced in politics or both, I.V. is a powerless political backwater. It long had governmental services to match: one stop light for 6,000 cars, no public parks, inadequate street lighting, few sidewalks, no hospital, out-of-touch police...
These weird ironies are the vertebrae of many of Oates' best stories. Sometimes they protrude like irregular knobs; more often, they're slipped in, almost surreptitiously...
...doctrine of Fate inevitably terminates in the return of what is always the same. Plus ca change... Or, "a few years from now" we will return to the same original and persistent position-in fashion as in the movement of history. Doubtless, Alfred Kroeber's discovery of "an irregular cyclical pattern" in Paris fashion may well be a profound anthropological achievement of the age; but before we knuckle under his authority, we might consider the findings of Madge Garland in her witty and erudite book, The Changing Form of Fashion. There, it seems, Mrs. Garland has produced a canvas whose...
...irregular hours that are the city's normal working conditions provide built-in alibis for determined politicos. Some congressional wives elect to stay home rather than live in Washington at all?giving the capital a contingent of permanent "summer bachelors." But the motivated men of Government cannot afford to take three-hour lunches, and the traditional cinq-a-sept is out of the question for a 12-to 15-hour-day man. By all accounts, the sexual quotient of Republican Washington is low. The Democrats of the Kennedy and Johnson years?relaxed, open, pleased with themselves?were more insouciant about...
...moved to join from 1920-1924 dropped it so totally in 1925-1926, (Joe) McCarthyism was basically a four year phenomenon, 1950-1954. The famous Berkeley anthropologist, Alfred Krocher, studied the changes in the length of skirts for a 100 year period using Paris fashion catalogues. He reported an irregular cyclical pattern in which skirts rose and fell almost as far as they could go in either direction...