Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard swipes were the most by the Crimson since Potsdam and Yalta; to Penn's credit, however, it should be noted that rare was the play on which the Quakers committed more than one mistake...
...Berman lets nary a branch of his calling escape his splenetic pen. To the vanishing, often bungling general practitioner, he says: "Good riddance." His definition of what he believes surgeons regard as a "reasonable" fee: "All that the traffic can bear." Psychiatry, he says, has lately been "lit by rare flashes of brilliance such as transactional analysis and fornication therapy." As for pediatricians, he asks: "What kind of intellect opts to spend the better part of its professional life with diaper rash as its most common challenge...
...stands of water tupelo and witch hazel and thick forests of hickory, iron wood and beech. Fish such as the Atlantic sturgeon and crystal darter thrive in the waters of the new preserve, which also provides one of the only known homes of the yellow-blotched sawback turtle, a rare species that sports two humps on its back like a camel...
...means that moneymen so distrust the pound's value that they will seize on almost any excuse to dump sterling. Said one banker: "No one who sold sterling believed that the story was true. They sold because they were afraid someone else would believe it." Even the rare bit of good British economic news cannot soothe these jitters. On Oct. 26 the British government reported that unemployment in September shrank by 78,000, to a total of 1,377,110. The news brought no recovery in the price of the pound...
...real enemy in Lovers and Tyrants is a lack of the rare alchemy needed to transform ideas and raw experience into a story that will believably carry its own truth. ("If one day they find their way into a book," Graham Greene wrote about the details of a novelist's life, "it should be without our connivance.") Successful biography, and autobiography, are less demanding than fiction. They mainly require qualities that Francine Gray clearly possesses: eloquence, extraordinary intellect and a fascinating life to exploit...