Word: preciousness
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...Castro has always been a redoubtable tactician, adept at sensing the public temper and clever at catching up with the times. He is also ready to "correct the errors we made in correcting our errors," as he once put it, when it suits his purposes. National unity is a precious component of his authority, and so he will tack when necessary to preserve it. "Fidel wants to authorize what people are already doing spontaneously," says Raul Rivero, a poet and independent journalist. It's like the dollar. When the black market in American currency grew too strong, Castro co-opted...
...Bull meets Cow. They mate. Soon, Bull wants New Cow. Jane, a TV talk-show booker, is, in a nutshell, Old Cow. After spending two heady months with the show's executive producer, Ray, she agrees to move in with him. They find the perfect apartment, she surrenders her precious Manhattan lease--then inexplicably, not to mention inconveniently, Ray dumps...
...That one precious point, however, was so close to being squandered. After a first period where the two teams marked up two goals a piece, Harvard once again fell into an abyss of mental lapses in the second period which led to three consecutive B.C. goals...
...goals apiece and the game clock winding down, Vermont winger Matt Sanders rifled a blast from just inside the right face-off circle. Jonas (29 saves) kick-saved the shot to his right, only to have Gernander one-time the rebound into an open net to give Vermont a precious 3-2 lead. Only 51 seconds remained...
...American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin) The title is ironic--a Philip Roth specialty. There is precious little rural peace and harmony in this scorching novel about a prosperous New Jersey couple whose good life is destroyed when their daughter becomes a '60s terrorist. In Roth's earlier novels, parents tended toward the comic and repressive. Not here. The author renders the Job-like suffering of a father and mother over a lost child with characteristic emotional force and verbal energy...