Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's why the novel fails. The immediate temptation is to compare Styron to Conrad; Sophie is Polish, and there are even references, late in the novel, to Conrad's Lord Jim. Styron searches for good and evil, for the vestigia that demons leave, just as Conrad did; he may even be answering Saul Bellow's Nobel Laureate call for a return to Conrad, for a return to what Conrad called the "permanent, enduring, essential" in human existence. But Styron doesn't know "the horror." These are small shoes in the footprints of sasquatch...
...Kyriazi. Although the SHS charter empowers the board to "conduct ongoing evaluations of the program" and to dismiss guides who fail to "perform required duties," board members never checked up on the guides until January. "By the time we realized that we had done something wrong, it was too late," Mark J. Shlomchik '81, treasurer of SHS last year, admitted...
...guides were not keeping in touch with their freshmen obviously it wastime to get on the phone and make sure they did. And ultimately, the board did. But by then it was January and, as Shlomchik conceded, "too late...
Finally four board members agreed in late spring that only full-scale restructuring could salvage SHS Shlomchik, Mason, Steven N. Kaplan '81, and Susan Kish '80 drafted a reorganization plan which installed a coordinator in each House to supervise the guides...
...Boston, however, the militancy of the late William Henry Cardinal O'Connell and the rising affluence of the Irish Catholic middle class between the world wars ensured that the Catholic presence was here to stay. The Cardinal, among others, even began to worry that success would do to the faithful Catholics what it had done to the third generation of Puritans: lead to diminished zeal and cultural identity...