Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transformation from the unassuming, spotlight side-stepping Brvnteson one sees between games, to the intensely competitive player one sees on the fields, is not something that comes with the imbibing of a little locker room elixir, a-la Jeckyll and Hyde. The hardnosed Brynteson is the character that has emerged during the last three years during her late-in-life apprenticeship in competitive sports...
...Americans have discovered that the fear runs the other way, that whites are intimidated by their very presence; it would be hard to overestimate what an extraordinarily liberating force this discovery is." The almost pathetic hopefulness of the motto of the Tuskegee Institute class of 1886?"There's always room at the top" ?finally gave way to the angry oath of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee leader in 1965: "If we can't sit at the table, let's knock the f???-legs...
There is considerable room for improvement in farm policy. If some form of price support has to be continued?and a case can be made for it as a kind of disaster insurance?the practice of setting target prices just high enough to cover most production costs is a good one. But many experts believe the Government should drop its set-aside programs and once more urge farmers to produce. The U.S. and the world need all the food that American farmers can grow. Set-asides also tend to benefit big farmers, who can more easily take...
...have done more good than anything else." Cheever may be the only person in the world who would mention these writers in the same sentence. There are many who would not mention Shaw at all. Alfred Kazin's massive study of American fiction, On Native Grounds, has no room for the author. Edmund Wilson's definitive survey, Classics and Commercials, gives space to only one Shaw: George Bernard Today the Irwin Shaw Show means more than the Irwin Shaw books: Rich Man, Poor Man has eclipsed his previous works and further diminished his literary reputation. That...
...Girls in Their Summer Dresses a womanizer's roving eye finally set ties on the most beautiful legs in the room: his wife's-a comment on male sexuality that says more than any behaviorist manual. Act of Faith, in which a Jewish soldier trades in a pistol to treat his Christian buddies to drinks, is an explanation of the Masada complex that remains undated. Mixed Doubles, the story of a couple whose on-court skirmishes reveal a betrayed trust, seems doubly acute in a time of Inner Tennis...