Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps a bit too much fun is poked at the adherents of all political movements and the interaction between Grace Strasser-Mendana and Warren by its very complexity is less effective than other points of the novel--it is by far a more impressive and complex book than a mere Patty Hearst story would be. Well, maybe not complex, but certainly of more consequence and interest than any discussion of the menstrual cycle of the spoiled grandaughter of William Randolph Hearst...
...report, a controller is forbidden to tell a pilot to "Hold for takeoff' because the mere mention of "takeoff' could trigger a response in the mind of the pilot and cause him to throw the throttles open prematurely, then what was the Tenerife controller doing saying, "Standby for takeoff clearance...
...maidens troops around the stage, fluttering their arms, striking desolate poses and sighing for one Reginald Bunthorne: poet and poseurpar excellence. Bunthorne's dedication, you see, is not so much to his art as to himself. His aestheticism, which issues in a poetry devoted to colocynth and calomel, is mere affectation, a ploy designed to elicit the admiration of his gullible Victorian public...
Three months is a mere 6% of a presidential term-barely time enough, it might seem, for a Washington outsider to learn that the Tidal Basin is not a birdbath in the Rose Garden. But as Jimmy Carter faces Congress and the country with his energy message on the 91st day of his term, he almost inevitably invites at least an interim assessment. The usual time frame, of course, is 100 days-but what's ten days more or less in the case of a President who is setting Jimmy Carter's kind of pace...
...latest novel, Robert Penn Warren combines a Southern preoccupation with the past with a typically modern concern with selfhood and alienation. His protagonist literally revels in his aloneness, his rootlessness, his inability to love. Nor is he content with a mere demonstration of his problems; instead, he explains them to us, over and over again, in a style that mixes the lofty literary references of academic--Jed is a medievalist at the University of Chicago--with Faulknerian neologisms and strings of appositives...