Word: plot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell set his task as the impact of a year's time, and his book is a service to the temperament of his age--a record, an essence, and a unit. Lowell says, "the poems in this book are written as one poem. . . .My plot rolls with the season...
...restaurants, revisiting those already mentioned in the guide. When a trip is in the offing, Villa Fielding becomes a sort of MI 6 command post. A Hallwag highway map of Europe replaces one of the rugs on the living-room floor. On their knees, hunched over it, staffers plot their infiltration routes, circling "soft spots"?places that have been too long unvisited or, according to field reports, are currently undergoing rapid change. (A "soft spot" in the 1969 guide: Scotland, which Fielding has not visited since 1966.) Ole Simon, as the only operative with an 00 designation, cuts...
...plot springs from his search for moral equilibrium. Each of the characters closest to him seems to have found a partial solution. His partner, Blueboy, a shrewd, gamy con man, will play whatever role the whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...
...Bill "Crazylegs" Liller, the House staff had underhandedly attempted to subvert the seniors by bringing countless cases of beer and then discreetly refraining from indulging themselves. This insidious plot was discovered in the 6th inning. When the seniors found themselves behind by a score of 49-3. All would have been lost had it not been for the bases-loaded homer by senior pitcher Jan Halverson that triggered the 39-run 9th inning rally...
...film about Harvard's concrete, material effects, though a fine political documentary, would be irrelevant to our personal experience. On the other hand, our experience of Harvard depends so much on trivial incidents, details of personal style, facades, momentary impressions about people and situations that creating a coherent plot and characters is very difficult. Most student films fail, and end up extremely subjective...