Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desire to draw a moral also leads him to simplify the other characters to fit general roles. He works out a set of convenient metaphors to describe each of them, and continually sticks in these formulas to remind the reader of the character's place in the general scheme. Jocelin's ecstasy always burns like a flame, and an angel continually appears behind him to stand for his inspired will. The Master Builder and his wife "revolve around each other." And the urge which entangles the Master Builder in adultery with an innocent townswoman is "the net." This repetition does...
...district reapportionment plan that would keep intact the present split of eleven Republicans and eight Democrats, his Democratic Lieut. Governor T. John Lesinski sandbagged him. Lesinski came up with a plan of his own-which would probably give Democrats at least one additional seat in Congress-and slipped the scheme through the state senate with the cooperation of ten conservative Republicans who had fallen out with Romney. This, complained Senate Majority Leader Stanley Thayer, a Romney loyalist, was a "secret diabolical move." Fuming with anger, Romney accused the dissident Republicans of a sellout, but ironically, he may have to sign...
...like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie." For all that, Cornwell-Le Carré has seen too many mud pies that are the only pies some people have. And to combat such poverty, he proposes "a scheme called 'Write for Life.' " The idea is to get well-known writers to donate their royalties from a specific new book to a fund that will help worthy charities around the world. "Just at the moment when my market price seems to be so high," he explains...
Naturally, a high percentage of Crandall's calls have to do with integration, pro and con. He never hesitates. "Madam, you are a bigot," he barked at one caller. Last week he took on several waves of Negroes who were all for the stall-in scheme at the New York World's Fair. He said that sort of demonstration was "going too far, hitting the wrong people at the wrong time." In argument with a Negro girl last week, he asked: "Do you want me to accept you as an individual...
...postwar Bikini tests but lost out in competition. He was refused a regular commission in the Air Force, and after enrolling in the U.S.A.F. meteorological school, was eased out of the service for cheating on an exam. While being mustered out, he got mixed up in a harebrained scheme to invade Cuba and make it a 49th state. Federal agents discovered a cache of arms and the plot was aborted. Eatherly received a suspended sentence...