Word: overwhelms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of great plots and lots of action. This time most of the characters always seem to be waiting for phone calls. And the paucity of the plot leaves the book with only its theme and character--not Ludlum's strong suit. In his other novels the great plots overwhelm most of Ludlum's flaws as a novelist but in this case it underwhelms...
...nomination, and then just barely past Vice-President Richard Nixon for the Presidency. Twenty-four years later, though, Gary Hart won't be so lucky if he depends upon New Idea rhetoric alone to win the Democratic nomination, and then the Presidency. In the rosiest of scenarios, Hart might overwhelm Walter F. Mondale simply by convincing voters that the former Vice President is a figure from the discredited past. He would then go on to win the nomination, and, course uncorrected, lose the general election...
...favor of deterrence based on protective defense as opposed to deterrence by retaliation. Many protective defense systems show promise and would cost less than the measures required to overwhelm by retaliation. I favor early deployment of protective means because it will do more to deter war than any retaliatory measures...
...demons. A case in point: Esteban and the Ghost, adapted by Sibyl Hancock (Dial; $10.95). The hero, a wide-eyed tinker, plies his trade in the hills of Spain until he learns of a reward for anyone who can exorcise the ghost from a forbidding castle. The sprite can overwhelm anything except innocence, and Esteban not only survives but prevails. Together, he and the ghost recover some stolen treasure, a feat that lands one in paradise and the other on the Iberian version of Easy Street. Dirk Zimmer's illustrations have the amiable quality of cartoons; the only people...
Still, Orwell never allowed this innate pessimism to overwhelm his talent or his energies. With Europe flaring into war, he took time from his political comments to write essays on Charles Dickens, Henry Miller and the literary and social merits of English boys' magazines. Oddly, these are the pieces that have aged the least. It is as if survival depended on the small things, like childhood pleasures, and not the large things, like...