Word: palely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility of that. For a roommate she draws a grim little trollop named Biscuit Besqueth, who talks baby talk to the oaf she is trying to railroad to the altar. Down by the pool, pale Fortune's batty advances are repelled with casual, callous disdain by the glistening sun worshipers. The author has mastered all the sledgehammer nuances of brutalizing speech: the deadening obscenities, the tag lines from talk shows, the dreary threats and boasts...
...largely complete, reports Cloud, who has just finished an extensive tour of South Viet Nam's four military regions: "From the DMZ in the north to the U Minh forest in the south, the sunburned or black faces of American G.I.s have been replaced by the delicately carved, pale yellow faces of Vietnamese, who are obliged to carry on the fight. Now, in all but a few corners of the country, the South Vietnamese, trained and supplied by the U.S. and supported by American airpower, are on the line alone...
...upon this gossamer fiction with a head stuffed full of what it does not mean. No, Field notwithstanding, the romantic hero, Martin Edelweiss, is not motivated toward self-eclipse by his parents' early separation. No, there is no connection between Glory's dream world of Zoorland and Pale Fire's Zembla. Though the author admits that Martin might be "a distant cousin with whom I share certain childhood memories," one is enjoined against "flipping through Speak, Memory [Nabokov's autobiography] in quest of duplicate items." Instead, the dutiful reader -always feeling vaguely inferior to the ideal...
...king of the rock and roll sax, his studio contributions stretching back to the Coasters' hit "Yakety Yak." His last album, Live at Fillmore West (Atco), was his best by far, despite the questionable inclusion of such songs as "Whole Lotta Love" and "Whiter Shade of Pale." With a phenomenal rhythm section driving him along, Curtis displays his prodigious control of the instrument in the essential Stax-Volt rhythm and blues vein...
...must bear one another's burdens, we must look not only on our own things, but also on the things of our brethren." William Penn was a tireless proponent of charity: 'The best recreation is to do good." There will be opportunity for lighter pursuits "when the pale faces are more commiserated, the pinched bellies relieved and the naked backs clothed, when the famished poor, the distressed widow and the helpless orphan are provided for." That notorious moralist Cotton Mather wrote: "If any man ask, Why is it so necessary to do good? I must say, it sounds...