Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot is fairly complex and farcical, and Yandell does a neat job of keeping the small confusions and flimsy coincidences straight. Both Vandervanes use him: Kitty to try and persuade her husband to leave Sylvia, Sir Roy to further the escapade. Uppermost (but never very elevated) in Yandel's mind is preserving his friend's musical reputation by preventing a performance of Elevations 9. Spreading butter on Sir Roy's bow only postpones the debacle a few minutes. Happily Yandell has small expectations...
There is nothing quite like a master theory of history to set the old blood coursing. Master Theorist climbs his neat little mountain. He looks down upon the masses-ants, really. He hears the rush of centuries-a mere ticktock. Then he closes eyes and ears tight and pronounces his patented, stretch-fit perspective. Can any high match the high of an intellectual passing the aeons in review...
...Case Load, the climax-and a neat one it is-comes when Detective Hamilton, desperate to solve a case. frames and murders a suspect he had concluded was innocent. The victim is actually guilty, and Hamilton gets away with the crime. But Author-Convict Johnson knows that that is an unimportant detail. Whether Hamilton actually goes to prison for his crime matters only to society. For each man, there is prison enough in himself...
When U.S. builders set a new record last year by starting 2.1 million homes, no one was happier than Max H. Karl, a neat, bespectacled Milwaukee lawyer. With the upsurge in housing providing the push, Karl's MGIC Investment Corp. put a huge dent in what was once the sole domain of the Federal Government: home loan insurance. Today MGIC (pronounced magic) has $6.5 billion worth of insurance in force, compared with $12 billion insured by the Federal Housing Administration...
...Protestant scholarship for four decades, has come under some attack in recent years. Southern Methodist's William R. Farmer, in his book The Synoptic Problem, maintains that the Mark theory was based not so much on conclusive proof from the Gospel texts as on a desire for a neat, scientific solution to satisfy a scholarly predilection for evolution: the more primitive Mark evolving into the smoother, more elaborated Matthew and Luke. Farmer returns to a sequence proposed by Griesbach: Matthew, then Luke, then Mark. Farmer's critics ask why Mark would have omitted so much of importance, such...