Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taste for writing and the sort of sexual imbroglios that would later crop up in his fiction. During his senior year, his landlady discovered his girlfriend in Roth's room and threatened, briefly, to have them both expelled. "It was the mid-1960s," Roth notes, "before I got round to exploiting this painful, ludicrous episode for a scene in my novel When She Was Good." But it was while teaching at the University of Chicago that Roth ran into the elemental force that would permanently shape him as a man and a writer. Her name was Margaret Martinson, although...
...least impersonal of cities. Understatement has no place here. Rather, this is a brawny, rough-and-tumble, rollicking place, animated by the earthy good humor of its Chaucerian folk. Hurly-burly impromptu is the way of Seoul. Round-faced women set up huge speakers on busy street corners, then sit beside them, crooning along to organ music as they entertain themselves. Hypervendors stack up rows of imitation Reeboks on the hoods of cars, using the backseats as storerooms for their goods. A man wanders out onto the sidewalk in his pajamas...
Engagement, in fact, is the very essence of Seoul, a vigor and emotionalism that find expression in the fierceness of the city's rites. At the World Evangelical Crusade in the Yoido Plaza last month, half a million Christians gathered round, crying "Allelujah!," their bodies swaying, their faces suffused with joy, tears streaming from their tight-closed eyes. Yet even in their ecstasies, the devotees were model citizens of Seoul: almost no one stood up, lest he obscure another's view...
Last year, the Crimson fell only feet short of a NCAA Championship--a penalty kick loss to San Diego State in the NCAA semifinal round...
...quiet, unassuming man, at once set out to establish a modest administrative style, one quite different from the stern, autocratic ways of Chun, who favored elevated, thronelike chairs and sat at a separate desk when meeting with his Cabinet. Roh introduced round tables, which he shares with colleagues and visitors. In his campaign, Roh had insisted that despite his background as a soldier, he was, at heart, "an ordinary...