Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sawyer's lawyer, Lloyd Riley, argued that the prosecution's portrayal of his client as a latter-day Fagin was "absurd. He doesn't have the mental capacity to execute such schemes." But U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton decided last week that the coach had indeed taught his team to steal more than bases. He sentenced Sawyer, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of unarmed robbery, to a maximum 30 years in prison. Ten gang members had earlier received four to 24 years...
Berger, 58, has contributed a great deal to social satire. Unlike many of the faded comic ironists of his generation, he does not appear to have run out of material or energy. The former is not necessarily related to the latter. There is always more raw material for satire than one writer can handle in a lifetime. However, energy usually comes from a rare devotion to an insistent internal voice...
...very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...protests against dividing fiction and nonfiction which have emanated from one of the country's most inventive, entertaining and best journalists) Ancient Evenings was to be at once Mailer's monument of unaging intellect and his clinching demonstration of imaginative virtuosity--if one can consciously strive for the latter while hoping to achieve the former...
This vision of Harvard-sex-as-mystical-brain-noise has a latter-day proponent in the form of Nicholas Gagarin '70. In a loosely autobiographical novel called Windsong, published during Gagarin's senior year, the narrator spends a considerable amount of time in bed with one Radcliffe woman or another, and each encounter produces a new disquisition on what it all means...