Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yards. After another completed pass to halfback Tom Norton, Columbia had swankered from its own 11 to the Harvard 39 in only four plays. After the game, Restic would express disappointment with his team's inability to close down the Lions passing attack in the game's latter moments...
...Hill, which includes graduate school) was substantial: other students opted for six-year medical programs to ensure the same sort of security. And Fitzsimmons says at least two students went to state schools on full scholarships to save money for a less academically able younger sibling, in case the latter should prove unable to get a comparable scholarship anywhere...
Monday. She wanted company, stimulation, talk; but needed solitude, serenity, writing. Her letters reach out for the former; the diaries embrace the latter, often during pauses from work or in moments snatched between social engagements. Compared with letters, her diaries also full of shoptalk as she labors on The Years, Three Guineas, her biography of Fry. Not that this is mundane stuff. Here was a woman who could weep over her earlier entries: "The sense of all that floating away for ever down the stream, unknown for ever." Ultimately the diaries had the same spiritual stake...
What Malamud has actually produced is an astonishment: a fable of the last man so bizarre that it defies explication. At first it seems that in the person of Calvin Cohn, the author has in mind a latter-day Noah. Adrift in a boat Cohn is the only human survivor of the "Second Flood" that follows a nuclear war between the "Djanks" and "Druzhkies." Speaking from a crack in the sky, God addresses Cohn: "That you went on living, Mr. Cohn, I regret to say, was no more than a marginal error. . . Therefore live quickly-a few deep breaths...
Faced with this kind of comment, Prime Minister Begin argued that his country's aggressive attacks were necessary to reduce casualties among Israelis, Said Begin: "Given a choice between dead Jews and a good press, and living Jews and a bad press, I would prefer the latter." But worried Israeli politicians held investigations into charges that government spokesmen were responsible for the unfavorable coverage because of their mishandling of the press. The investigations were inconclusive, but the Foreign Ministry believes that the army's heavyhanded treatment of reporters in the first week of the war tended to make...