Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Times change, though, and so do admissions offices. Witness last year, when Harvard's and Radcliffe's became one, an event that caused as great a shake-up at Byerly Hall as it did around Radcliffe sporting circles...
...their produce, Torrijo confides to Greene under his breath (the politician's touch), "I'm going to grant it...I want to redistribute money...All the same I'll keep them guessing." In another town, the peasants, gathered like "a committee elected to arrange Christmas entertainments," try to shake the military men with angry, meaningless slogans. But the government's drum-rolls drown out their protest...
...brand of music was invented just for the occasion--"disco," it was called, to coincide, we guess, with the name of the pleasure domes in which it was played for common enjoyment. The music had a heavy, thumping beat, lots of strings and flourishes, and it made you shake your booty, so to speak. In the great melting pot that was disco, we all shook our booties together...
This is not an easy exhibition to shake. The robes stick in the memory like apparitions, benefiting from the Romantic imagery of cowled monks and stalking mummies to which they allude. As painting, they are the most authoritative images Dine has yet produced. The whimsy of his earlier work has boiled off at last...
...doubtful that his book will do much for a general audience. Not many Americans know how to appreciate a good hurricane, and they aren't likely to take time out to read about even the biggest one of all. Which is, of course, their loss. A Wind to Shake the World is a fine book, a wonderful source of stories to sit around and tell when livid storm clouds come steaming across the horizon and force the conversation indoors. For those who give it a try, the Big Wind will provide more than a few hours of powerful entertainment...