Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot. That is the way that Robert Ludlum or Jack Higgins would wrap up such a story, and Walker Percy scrupulously delivers all the promises his plot provides. But that is not all. For while More is trying to pull the plug on the doctored water, he must also ponder a vexing question. What is wrong, after all, with a simple process, akin to fluoridation, that makes people happier than in their natural state and that dramatically reduces crime and social pathologies? Are Dr. More's spaced-out patients better now than when he treated them for the normal...
...motorcycle. Although Joyce and Mann had some early personal crises and maintained some idiosyncracies throughout their careers, both of their lives conformed to the stereotype of how writers are supposed to behave. They spent most of their time writing and, when not writing, they took long walks to ponder the weighty issues of their day or gave lectures at prestigious universities. They were not social. They did not go to wild parties, preferring instead the more contemplative pleasures of group readings with other famous writers and intellectuals...
Roby and the cagers now have a long off-season to ponder the 1986-'87 campaign just past--a year when time and again the Crimson came up just a few points short...
THIS WEEK IS SHAPING UP TC be one of those rare periods when the citizens of a country engage in some serious self-reflection. The United States is settling its collective butt into a huge national armchair to ponder the possibilities presented by the ABC mini-series, Amerika, and patriots everywhere are swilling wine coolers and buying cars in celebration of President's Day. Aside from these nationalistic excesses, though, Dewitt has noticed several movies now playing that attempt to engage the viewer in the greater questions of life. Do we exist in a world that conforms to some sort...
While Gorbachev is often pictured as a man in a hurry, he gave party members plenty of time to ponder the thoughts contained in last week's speech. The Soviet leader suggested the convening of an extraordinary national party "conference" sometime in 1988. Its purpose would be to discuss organizational changes like election reforms and to review progress in the current Five-Year Plan. The conference would, in effect, be an extraordinary session of the quinquennial Soviet Party Congress, the most recent of which occurred last year. Such special meetings have been held before, but they are by no means...