Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long (three and a half hours) and cold (temperatures hovering in the thirties) contest. When it was finally over, to the relief of the handful of chilled fans who stuck it all out, Loyal Park's Crimson varsity baseball squad had come out with a 10-6 opening-day victory over Greater Boston League rival Boston College at Chestnut Hill...
...result was strangely pictorial sculpture: freestanding but often flat as a relief, sometimes unintelligible when walked round. The figures are meant to be seen from the front, as if drawn up on their massive bases beneath an imaginary proscenium arch. From the back they are apt to disintegrate into a welter of craggy texture and bronze lumps. They insist always on a specific remoteness from the viewer...
...renewed emphasis on exports may be bad news for the U.S. and Western European nations. They had breathed a huge sigh of relief early last year when Japan began exporting capital as well as goods and turned its attention to solving such pressing domestic problems as pollution and housing. Through most of last year Japan imported more goods than it exported, trimming its reserves of foreign currencies from a bloated $19 billion to a more moderate $12 billion in the process...
...culminating moral of the book, drawing superficially on the age-old metaphor of the stage of life, throws Prose's sensibilities for her characters into sharp relief. Looking through a window onto the world's future, Isabella agrees with the angels: human life is "just a series of stories and plays, most of which are exactly the same!" There is no reason to regret a bad life if it is "all just a story." Although reluctantly, Prose does allot Isabella a two-sentence demurral to finish the book: she wonders how the Glorious Ones' yearnings for earthly fame fit into...
...nudists and Peeping Toms-it deprives both of their raison d'étre. More ponderous analyses are already droning forth: the sexual revolution is responsible; folks are simply grateful that students are no longer rioting or building bombs. But the best explanation may be as simple as the relief afforded by a good belly laugh. What do you say to a naked everybody? Thanks, we needed that...