Word: saga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pounds of paper threaten to crush an entire civilization! See actual money collapse, then rise from its ashes! See an entire nation tremble before the Gnomes of Zurich! See panic nearly break out! Yes, the British government was back again last week with still another episode of the Saga of the Plunging Pound, and for theatrics alone it was one of the best performances ever. At one point in the drama, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey headed for the Orient on other business, then changed his mind and rushed back from the airport to his desk. Prime Minister James...
...woman there may be a ballooning romantic waiting to get out. She is also a useful vehicle for a meditation on the possibilities of modern fiction. In unobtrusive layers of allusion, Atwood pays homage to earlier forms of the novel - the picaresque, the gothic romance, the Bildungsroman and Victorian saga. She tries to shoehorn her heroine's life into the coherent contours of those forms, but Joan Foster won't sit still for the fitting. Even the baggiest literary shapes require a greater certainty about life than heroine - or author - can muster. "It did make a mess," says...
Reminders of the bizarre Pavlovich saga continue to turn up. Eric Roberts, an Applied Math tutor, discovered a set of Harvard Trust Co. checks with the name "S.M. Pavlovich III" in a gutter earlier this week...
...appointment temporarily ends the two-year saga of a tenure battle that featured heated disputes about Goodwin's manuscript and a re-vote of the Government Department's original decision to tenure...
Delderfield's answer is hardly original, but coming from a saga writer, it bears a special weight. Looking back at himself 40 years later, old Charlie concludes that young Charlie was more or less right. A man must kick against the System-play the rebel, if not the outlaw-in order to become a man. Listening to Charlie, Delderfield seems staggered himself and hastily pulls back from profundity to close out his novel with a twist as old as one of O. Henry's. Still, it works, just as almost everything by Delderfield works. Who else could write...