Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feldstein also said he generally dislikes mandatory wage and price controls, which he thinks the government may possibly reinstate in the near future. "We're in for unfortunate times," he said...
...contest was short-circuited by six Yale turnovers; however, Columbia continually failed to capitalize on the breaks. The costilest of the Yale mistakes included a fumble in the end zone near the end of the first half...
Stephen Alter is 21 years old, just out of Yale, and his first published novel strolls with the kind of sweet prose most fiction writers never get near. Like most writers he has structural problems, and he goes overboard sometimes, but this kid has written one hell of a good book...
...book opens after Isabel, the heroine, has spent thirty years of her life in a small Irish Catholic community near Manhattan. We see the orthodox funeral of her invalid father, to whom the devoted her past eleven years as her mind records...
...stood behind Father Mulcahy and concentrated on the way his pink skull showed through his white hair... I stood near my father's grave, my black heels cutting holes in the grass. I kissed and was kissed; I answered people's expressions of grief with coos and cluckings, animal noises, which seemed at the time the only appropriate response. They had buried my father; I would never see him again. That I continued to breathe air surprised me. Walking past the statues of St. Michael and St. Gabriel, the archangels, I felt light...