Word: ring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caveat emptor: miracles occur in only a few books each season. And when they do, it is usually the givers who are astonished, not the recipients. This Christmas, as in the past, Ogden Nash's words will still ring true...
...record since 1972 makes Bok's words ring hollow. Just last spring, Harvard refused to support five of six shareholder resolutions calling for either withdrawal or non-expansion of U.S. corporate activity in South Africa. Harvard also abstained on a resolution that would have required Manufacturers Hanover Bank to stop making loans to the South African government...
...Shaffer's masterpiece Equus in Lumet's film adaptation of what may be the play of the '70s. Reviewers have pilloried Lumet for abandoning the example of the record-shattering Broadway production, and instead applying his personal imprint to the movie version. But such bad-mouthing has an unfair ring; if the director had retained the heavy-handed horse symbolism of the stage version, the critics' court probably would have found Lumet guilty of emulation when his duty called for an imaginative adaptation. Acknowledging his obligation to present a different slant, Lumet has stripped the story of its dependence...
...Moving to the offensive, Smiley assigns Jerry Westerby--dubbed "the honourable schoolboy" for his noble lineage and his bookish manner--to snarl the operations of the Soviet spy network. In usual fashion, Westerby's mission takes him to Hong Kong and Indochina, into the middle of an international narcotics ring and a KGB scheme to subvert a pack of Red Chinese politicos--and unavoidably, into a few bedrooms as well. But somewhere along the way, Westerby begins thinking unsoldierish thoughts, railing not only against the moves of the high-handed CIA "cousins" he runs up against, but also against...
Apparently, Hamill started out to write a novel about a boxer, realizing after 60 pages that "what it all was really about was incest." A few profanities and he was right in the middle of the Oedipal ring. So he took the story to its logical end, sort...