Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present, even though much of histhoughts are centered around hockey, Bodycontinues to find time in his "senior spring" toenjoy himself. His teammates call him "Fobber"--asin, "Friend Of Babes" (FOB), for Body is alwayspatrolling the dating waters--and Body isdetermined to savor his last days in Cambridge...
Once again, the Big Red snatched the game's first goal. Not exactly one to savor, either--Geoff Lopatka's dump-in found a chink in the glass and caromed on goal where Harvard goalie Aaron Israel "just kind of flubbed it," in his own words, letting it trickle in. It was Lopatka's fifth goal in three play-off games, two more than he notched in the entire regular season, and it gave Cornell the early lead...
...stooped to watch coltish first-years frolicking in the Yard during last weekend's reprieve from winter. Perched on the cusp of real accomplishment, they were insolently unconscious of their power. This twentysomething resolved to savor this place and time. It won't be coming my way again...
...verdict against the company in a suit against it. It looks like chickens (or in this case, sharks) have come home to roost. And sharks cannabalism is such a rare thing that when it happens, all the rest of the fish in the sea can't help gathering to savor the spectacle...
...would spit in his face, if I could but see him." Memories of his past have obviously obsessed Roth for most of his adult life, but he no longer seems willing -- as he did so memorably in Call It Sleep -- to let his readers experience and savor them firsthand. Perhaps when later volumes of Ira's story appear, the place of this first long chapter in the grand design will be clearer. For now, the book may strike all too many expectant Roth fans as an invitation to fall asleep...