Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laurentian material in this new novel, notably Saville's unsatisfactory love affair, conveys a rare sense of place and emotion. Yet the impression remains strong that Storey, himself a miner's son, is unable to put enough distance between author and subject. His anger does not shake itself clear, and, like the hero, the novel's impressive strength never quite finds its direction. Skow
...hostile world" professes little alarm at what many view as a world grown even more hostile since Carter took office. He reckons that sharp shifts in U.S. policy must inevitably shake things up for a time. The changes are necessary, he argues, because "an old-world order is coming to an end and the shape of a new world community is yet to be defined." The old order, based largely on military power and nationalism, is giving way to "a technetronic age" in which there will be increasing emphasis on economic development and social justice. The old East-West ideological...
...declare his independence unless his parents have not claimed him as a tax deduction for two years; further, he may live at home for only six weeks during the year he receives aid as well as the year prior to his grant. HEW hopes that the new rules will shake loose more federal money for students who really need it-unless, of course, middle-income taxpayers start planning even farther ahead and farm the kids out to live with the relatives...
...novelist keeps Hannah's dilemma in the foreground without ignoring its effect on those around her. Gestures like Hannah's shake the pillars of society; friends and loved ones are forced to reassess her life and theirs. Especially torn is Hannah's husband, who is treated as anything but the ogre who pops up in much current feminist fiction. A well-meaning man who has be come the "bill-paying machine" everyone expected him to be, Henry Jackson first tries to bully and then to cajole Hannah into the operating room. He argues sensibly that...
There is one CIA weakness for which Turner has no ready solution: detecting and countering the efforts of foreign intelligence agents to acquire U.S. secrets. The weakness stems in part from a shake-up in which veteran counterspies were replaced. The shifts took place before Turner arrived, but Knoche believes such work requires a periodic turnover of agents who will go all-out for a time and then take on other duties. Explains Knoche: "The work by its nature-where you constantly have to build negative or paranoid assumptions-can almost guarantee a form of illness...