Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RUMOR HASIT that Richard Nixon wants to get back into politics as a special adviser to the Republican Party, but there is another rumor going around--Nixon is becoming a rock-n-roll star and his first releases have created a new genre in the dying art form: the you were there genre, a cross between the blues, and solo schmalz (i.e., Frank Sinatra's "I Did it My Way"). Nixon, according to unofficial sources, is even preparing some television advertisements to be released next year in celebration of the bicentennial, and a rough copy of one of those...
Democrats: A recommendation to empower the Administration to delay or roll back certain price increases, but no mention of limiting wages...
...become immune to attacks. Magruder, Segretti, Krogh and others, we've done wrong. We've admitted it. We're no longer burdened by it. Nixon can achieve the same. If so, in a relatively few years the ugly side of the Nixon Administration will begin to roll back. If not, the good will be obscured. The feeling of retribution will linger...
...vast mass of humanity is, alas, attracted by nonsense. To point out that it is nonsense is merely to reassure people. They will roll in the dung heap all the more merrily for knowing that it is the real thing. The Roman philosopher Seneca said, "Man is a reasoning animal." What evidence he had for that assertion no one knows; certainly none has surfaced in the 19 centuries since his time...
Everyone includes his once sedate wife Irene, who has thrown George over for a young rock-'n'-roll star. A good part of the novel seems to take place in a tree house, where George secretly watches his wife and her hairy lover do their act in what was once Melish's own bedroom. From his preadolescent perch, George reviews his life like a man flipping the dial on a TV set. It is an apt literary device considering that George is a victim of the same attitudes that he has watered down and packaged for mass...