Word: preys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Lissa Muscatine fell prey to Joe Curran, 6-4, 6-3, Curran, who has lost only two collegiate matches in the last four years, both to Lisa Rosenblum of Yale, pulled ahead 4-1 in the first set. The scrappy Muscatine evened it up with three straight, but lost the set in the last two games...
...melancholy memory of a moment and expands into the imagery of a new mythology--the mythology of summer. As April lengthens into May, as Cambridge boils and perspires and the shores of the island once again prove cloister like in their immutability, these globetrotters are more easily prey to a new, but no less powerful, set of images of worlds not realized. And within a few weeks, a month at most, the disillusioned ranks of the lovesick, the homesick, and the big city buffs will succumb to new illusions of journey and escape. Has anyone seen my sunglasses...
...trouble is, Wolfe is falling prey to the things he condemns. He's undergone a transformation, from reporter--or, if you prefer, realistic artist--to critic. Instead of producing things that everyone can appreciate and understand, he's given up his crusade against the cultural and become one of them. He's kept up the fight, of course--if anything, pieces like "The Painted Word" will make him more controversial than he ever was--but now takes it on the terms of his opponents, as if the critic's place is now more comfortable than the reporter...
...matters ("Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?") prompted him to change the reference to "nature, red in claw and tooth." Gill explains as best he can: "His literal-mindedness being what it was, I suspect that he must have worried it out that an animal seizing its prey would bloody its claws before it got around to bloodying its teeth...
Unfortunately, after this promising start in the introduction at ripping the veil off the underlying structural causes of language's decay, Strictly Speaking falls prey to the very deficiency it is describing: it is written in such a comical, anything-for-a-laugh-at-all-those-illiterate-people tone that all analysis is obscured. Instead of learning the realtionship between social transformations and the way people talk, we are told reporters are too self-important, politicians too aftaid of being spontaneous, social scientists too attached to impressive-sounding jargon. As for the common, non-proffessional man, well, he comes across...