Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 1300 square feet of the garden, enclosed by a high wire fence, has belonged to the University since 1956, when it bought the plot from the Fly Club. But for 20 years, Harvard has let the final club use it in return for maintenance, while the University has paid over $50,000 in property taxes on the land to Cambridge...
Walsh told the students they had violated an oral agreement made when the University bought the land, that the University would not use the land without erecting a 12-foot fence between the club and the University's plot to protect the Fly Club's privacy...
Last week, as strident campaign posters blossomed on walls and telephone poles all over Italy and politicians caucused to plot national election strategies, San Gennaro was not the nation's only leading indicator of disaster. The election was called one year ahead of schedule because a succession of weak center-left governments had been unable to solve the country's festering economic and social problems. It is an election that few politicians really want now. The early reading was that the Communists would make parliamentary gains equal to or larger than their already sizable increase in power...
Irving Wallace, or Arthur Hailey, or any of the other neo-realists in the supermarket-check-out-counter-school of modern American fiction might have been able to go somewhere with this plot, but Agnew simply does not know where to start. Nothing happens for the first two hundred pages. Agnew introduces his characters with an almost Proustian verve for description, but his idea of expressing meaningful detail is to inform the reader every time a character shaves, or brushes his teeth. Then, when the action finally takes place--most of it in the final fifty pages--Agnew makes...
...patchwork nature of the plot also makes it difficult to divine morals from the tale. Canfield is both guilty and a victim of circumstance. One is tempted to look for similarities between Canfield's fate and Agnew's, but there are simply too few parallels between the two cases and not enough clues in the book...