Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fail to make appearances in this book. The closest approach to the contemporary is a bittersweet sense of loss and of being lost that deepens the emotions of most of the characters, but it remains whispy and gently, one of the beauties of life. Helprin is no one to probe the horrors and malaise of the Wasteland. The characters all avoid direct confrontation with the vaguely acknowledged dislocations of modern life, and thereby don't get desperate or weird or done in. They just get wistful and dreamy. And this dreariness, this systematic response to life is embraced...
...report describing how the reduced budget would cripple his efforts. But his new superiors at DOE, Landesman testified, urged him to rewrite the report and downplay the impact of the budget cuts. An internal DOE memo obtained by Subcommittee Chairman Toby Moffett of Connecticut maintained that the oil probe could earn the Treasury at least $600 million in additional payments from the companies-much more than would be saved by budget reductions...
...father had betrayed him; young Will, trying to break out of the circle by joining Jann Wenner in a new magazine called Outside, and discovering Wenner as disappointing a publisher as assorted Hearsts had been. Despite a faithful recording of the tensions within the Corporation, Chaney and Cieply never probe very deeply, never confronting the intra-familial demon wrestling the Hearst dynasty...
...most powerful and awesome skill acquired by man since the splitting of the atom. It is an unparalleled exploratory tool for examining, and in the process changing, the complicated machinery of heredity. If a gene of unknown function is inserted into bacteria, it can act as a probe that lets scientists see precisely what it does. By such techniques, researchers will finally speed up the formidable task of identifying, locating and analyzing every one of the more than 100,000 genes found in a human cell...
...probe with High in America is that it has the depth and style of a magazine article and is, in a sense, a feature piece on Stroup. Anderson portrays Stroup as the classical tragic hero, and some of the biographical information could have been deleted in favor of more relevant facts. Instead, we know more than we care to about Stroup, his desperado rep in dull old Washington, the deluge of drugs pushed on him by grateful constituents, the beautiful people of the counter-culture that he hung with, and his gigantic ego that would lead to his downfall. Anderson...