Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China, Europe during the 50's and the Kennedy Years. The personal narrative is held together by sketchy third-person narrations describing what actually happened during the time between the big events. Not only is this switching between reportage and narration disconcerting but it underlines the book's main problems...
...poor slob gets sent to stay with his parents' old buddies, a retired half-English, half-Indian general and his alkie wife, residents of a mostly deserted colonial outpost. The main activity there consists of drinking and watching the jungle reclaim the cottages. Naturally, this, uh, bucolic setting provides time for a lot of introspection, which is what just about everybody does. All of the characters involved get their chance to spin out brief but revealing vignettes about their various problems--sexual, social, existential. Here Alter really struts his stuff; the excellent vignettes display versatility that a young novelist...
...Governor. Clements' idea of fun is to skewer his Democratic opponent, Texas Attorney General John Hill, whom he derides as a "claims lawyer and a career politician." When Hill accused Clements of resorting to "Nixon-style Watergate tricks," the Republican replied: "Hill seems a little sensitive to me." The main campaign issue is how to spend the state's $3 billion surplus; no matter which candidate wins, the taxpayers are sure to get some relief...
These are among the main findings of a national telephone survey of 1,034 registered voters taken for TIME by the public opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White over a four-day period ending Oct. 8. The poll does not indicate any overwhelming sense of national anxiety. When asked a general question - "How do you feel that things are going in the country these days?" - 50% were willing to answer with a mild "fairly well" (only 5% thought things were going "very well"). Fully 76% felt the future would eventually bring prosperity, and 40% thought that their...
Heather A. Pavlik '80, secretary of RUS, said she believes the transition from a fall to spring election calendar was the main reason for the low turnout of candidates. With no elected legislature to help out, RUS's five-woman executive board had to organize and publicize the entire election...