Word: preys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfortunate that Cabrera fell prey to such a bitter, hysterical argument, but it is the only conclusion that is consistent with the pessimistic vision of his book. Denying any possibility of change, he denies any hope of social progress. His closing words are that "the sorrowful, unhappy and long island" will always be there, "after the last Cubans, surviving all the shipwrecks and eternally bathed by the current of the gulf: beautiful and green, imperishable, eternal...
Orange groves have been obliterated by freeways. Pacific sunsets are gone, curtained by smog. Up-and-away mobility has fallen prey to traffic congestion. Now what many consider the ultimate blow to California's vaunted good life has been delivered by the state's Public Utilities Commission, which has ruled that after April 1 it will be unlawful to heat newly built swimming pools with natural gas-the only practical way to warm them...
Foxes in Russian fables are foxier than any imagined by La Fontaine. One tries to lure his prey out of a tree by an impassioned appeal for public morality: "O chanticleer, my beloved child! You are sitting on a tall tree and thinking thoughts that are evil and accursed. You cocks keep many wives: some of you have as many as ten of them, some twenty, some thirty; with time their number reaches even forty! Come down to the ground, my beloved child, and do penance." Another crafty appeal has an oddly contemporary ring. Says fox to cock: "You should...
...exhibit the vitality of Wharton's own characters. There are important exceptions, of course, like Lewis's portrait of Wharton's friend and mentor Henry James, who felt during her visits that he was "being seized and carried off in the talons of some monstrous female bird of prey." But, in general, Lewis spends too much time chronicling in remorseless detail the comings and goings of the Wharton set, obscuring his very real insights under a mass of minutiae...
Apart from Mobutu's hope that an independent Cabinda would be easy prey for Zaire, he has concentrated on aiding the FNLA, whose leader, Holden Roberto, is his brother-in-law. The FNLA is essentially a tribal organization of the Bakongo, some 500,000 of whom fled to Zaire after the abortive 1961 uprising, and operates largely from Zairean bases. Since the FNLA has no real program beyond anti-communism and tribalism, the movement has attracted a great deal of Western support which is funneled through Mobutu. The U.S., which is increasing military aid to Zaire from $3.8 million...