Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Future Like the Past. After 30 years of studying war and its causes, Gaston Bouthoul, director of Paris' Institut Francais de Polémologie (from the Greek polemos or war, and logos, study), confesses that he is no nearer an understanding of it than when he began. What he sees in the future is a repetition of the past. Bouthoul foresees war over Siberia, for example, as China increasingly competes with Russia for one of the world's last unexploited land masses; or in the mystifying "encirclement psychosis," as he calls it, manifested by the world...
...sports editor of the Dake Chronicle, Robert Heller, was told by Duke coach Bucky Waters that Fitzsimmons left for personal reasons. Waters said that Fitzsimmons, who lives in Milford, Conn., wanted to be nearer home...
Without questioning the morality of our action, we guiltily marched to the front of the line and sat down amongst a group of blanketed students. We quickly learned that the kids still inside sleeping bags (nearer to the front) had deposited themselves there sometime between 10 p. m. and midnight the night before...
...languid. Armah unwinds the entire story slowly, circling the fragments of Baako's breakdown with the sureness of an African tribal dance that seems always on the edge of monotony, yet is continually closing on the climax. For Baako, too, there is a circling. First he approaches nearer and nearer to a knowledge of what lies at his center of being. Then he is literally and figuratively encircled by others like a mad dog. In an Ibsenian ending, when he finds his truth he is left alone at its center, insane in the eyes of everyone around...