Word: neatness
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...Oxford players is ubiquitous, even when talking to one another. A constant stream of jibes and dry remarks on a variety of topics is the norm. When asked what they thought of the people around Harvard, Bodgin replied, "Very pleasant." Reeve added his approval, saying, "Everyone seems to be neat and tidy." Crisp interjected, "What about that Buddhist fellow with the shaved head...
...serpent whose proffered apple is spurned by Adam and Eve and who makes the mistake of swallowing it himself, only to be driven to despair by modern society; a spilled drop of Coke that becomes the primal seed for an army of fantastic monsters; a tidy bee whose neat little world is crushed by the love thrashings of a monstrous (to her eyes) human couple...
...also be intended to symbolize the various forms of fragmentation that have dashed Godard's hopes for revolution--demoralizing factionalism within the French Far Left, the retreat of '60s youth into isolated, workaday middle-class existences, the proliferation of complexly interwoven international issues that no longer allow for neat divisions into "right" and "wrong," into "liberators" and "oppressors." Godard is no longer even sure that his films do, or can, serve a political function...
Maccoby realizes this, of course, and does a neat job of ignoring it. The book, he maintains, is only a psychological profile, not a definitive tome on American business practices. And to an extent, he is right: as a psychologist, he deals in the abstract, approaching society with a precise scientific manner that far outclasses the pat ramblings of pop sociologists such as Vance Packard and Alvin Toffler. His findings are interesting, and certainly valuable for their portrayal of the different types of drives that keep the engine of the American economy running. Indeed, in one chapter, Maccoby strikes home...
...from all sides, Lance moved last week to ease the strain in at least one area-his precarious financial position. He put on the selling block his posh Northside Atlanta home, purchased in 1975 for $400,000 and fondly dubbed "Butterfly Manna" by LaBelle. Asking price: a neat $2 million. LaBelle said the intended sale "is just a sign we plan to be in Washington for a long, long time." In the capital, a great many signs were pointing in the other direction...