Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectually group, of diverse interests and styles. This is a strong defense against mediocrity, for it takes an ususually impressive record to win the assent of a large majority. On the other-hand, the difficulty of the procedure leaves all of us with the feeling that we sometimes miss someone we should be getting, because a relatively small group of dissenters has blocked a nomination...
...real change in the man occurs. At first he has a sense of propriety, if not of morality, telling him philandering may be excused but romance may not. In the end, it seems, he has discovered the essence of love. He has taken up with the empathetic Miss Piggott, allowed his father's burial in Italy alongside old Kate, and even faked out the State Department. Avanti' presents Wendell's a change as speciously as a resort presents paradise to its guests...
...arts and crafts," she did door-to-door political polling, and she read textbooks for taping by the Braille Institute until "I couldn't stand the sound of my own voice any more." But what was it really like to be married to Howard Hughes? "That," said Miss Peters, "was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment...
...even more impressed with Shula's nontechnical capacity to impart a sense of cohesion, and his own indomitable positivism. Says Place Kicker Yepremian: "He's the kind of guy who knows when to pat you on the back and when to put you down. Even if I miss a kick he says, 'Keep your head up. You'll get the next one.' But one day he caught me doing something I shouldn't have, punting on the practice field, and he got on me quick." Adds Csonka: "He doesn't give...
...less demanding reviewers in his adopted country to call him a master stylist." To aid that laggard crowd, Nabokov has provided some blatant examples of the wordplays he is famous for. Proofreading R's new book, he puzzles about an incidental character named Adam von Librikov. Lest anyone miss the point, Nabokov adds, "Or was the entire combination a sly scramble...