Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fitzgeraldian teenagers. He even trots off on an Arabian Nights adventure in Morocco. Effective and colorful as some of this is, what does it have to do with Hughes' larger theme? The interrelation between private and public realms seems to have broken down. The narrative tends to lurch from near-history to near-fiction ("But Hitler, Strasser-how could these distant rivalries ever matter to Coventry...
...Shultz, CEA Chairman Herbert Stein and COLC Director John Dunlop, can deal effectively with the difficult problems ahead. Says Economist Pierre Rinfret, a Republican and an influential adviser to Nixon: "Shultz and Stein are incompetent. They are a disaster. All they have demonstrated is the ability to lurch from one short-term solution to another." The assessment is overly harsh, but it does reflect a wide frustration inside and outside the Administration with repeated failures to bring the economy into line. Phase IV could well be the Administration's last, best chance to restore public confidence in its ability...
...Union tactics. Last year's Union work stoppages were preceeded by weeks of intensive organizing and proselytizing. This Spring's incarnation of the organization roared in from out of nowhere and called an open-ended strike, leaving its doubtful graduate student colleagues and most undergraduates in the lurch...
...bureaucratic ineptitude. The Nixon Administration has not ended the Federal government's commitment to aiding college students in financial need. But by withdrawing support for the present system before completing the arrangements for its replacement, the Administration has opened the possibility that many students will be left in the lurch...
...chase sequence in the movie The French Connection. But as used in a novel like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the subway car as dramatic conveyance produces the sinking, shrinking feeling of a subgenre in decline. Once we roared across frontiers on the Orient Express; now we lurch along on a Lexington Avenue local...