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...freeholds, of solicitors and stamp duty." Chatter like that is enough to give solipsism a good name. Yet such lapses are the accidental by-products of an interesting and impressive experiment. A champion and biographer of Arnold Bennett, Drabble has produced an argumentative novel very much in the oratorical mold favored by Bennett and his contemporaries. When she wants a point emphasized or a warning heeded, she consciously resorts to long-outmoded fictional devices: the interpolated essay and the abrupt dismissal of characters who no longer serve her purpose...
...years ago the government told the school it couldn't call its team the Indians anymore. The bigwigs in Hanover were forced to change the nickname. First it was the Big Green. Gross. With a name like that it sounds like the team's three big stars would be Mold, Mildew and Mucus...
...wearer of an All-American tag is supposed to be a good athlete, well, Herold fits the mold. Currently in his third year occupying the goal for Harvard. "Freedo" (a nickname that somehow sounds too exotic for the even-keeled Herold) has compiled slightly under 2.0 goals-against average...
...turned out to be executor with full administrative powers over the estate-possibly because H.L. had doted on Ray as the only son of his second marriage. Discord soon developed between Ray and his three older halfbrothers, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar.* If not eccentrics in H.L.'s mold, they are at least wheeler-dealers. Bunker, in particular, has grabbed headlines with gaudy speculations in silver and soybeans. To resolve the conflict, Ray agreed in mid-1975 to split the empire in two. Bunker, Herbert and Lamar took over management of a new company, Hunt Energy Corp.; Ray retained control...
...critics protested, Carter's program was being efficiently spirited through the mazes of congressional committees. Taking personal charge of the legislation, House Speaker Tip O'Neill set up a special ad hoc energy committee under Ohio Democrat Thomas ("Lud") Ashley. That committee's job was to mold into one hill the legislation that emerged from various committees. Even as those hearings were under way, the House and Senate were also studying Carter's other keystone energy proposal-a bill to create a new Department of Energy...