Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mechanized present. But it was Spender in particular who, as Louis Untermeyer put it in Saturday Review, "transformed material considered too raw and crude for poetry. He invoked the magic of machinery; he packed an epic of travel into a sonnet contrasting a picturesque but fading past with the sharp contours of the present...
...estimated 110 million viewers who tuned in at one time or another during the night (up about 10% from 1972) by and large got swift and careful reporting of the returns, sharp and useful guidance about which states and areas really mattered to the outcome. But they would have needed magnifying glasses to find much in the way of deeper insight or analysis. Walter Cronkite enlightened viewers with the fact that while only .0000002% of the population are astronauts, fully 2% of the U.S. Senate are now drawn from that calling. NBC's Jack Perkins interviewed Ezra Coram...
...extraordinary new novel, The Family Arsenal, Paul Theroux's characters often are lost like this somewhere in the heart of the city. In fact, stumbling through England's dark, damp, declining metropolis becomes for Theroux like reading that dark, damp, declining novelistic form of sharp turns and blind alleys, the thriller. As in T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, to which The Family Arsenal seems to invite comparison, the characters emerge at first as anonymous voices: a crook prowling a seedy riverside district; an accountant who refuses to yield his house to a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood, an aristocratic woman who collects...
...They were just a little too sharp for us at this point," Wynn said last night. "We had some good games and good rallies, but they were a bit more consistent and more accurate...
What had gone wrong? Economists could easily find reasons to fit their own politics and prejudices. The monetarists, who are mostly Republican and conservative, pointed to the sharp decline in the rate of growth in the money supply in the six months up to last February; it rose only 2.7%, v. 8.7% in the previous half-year. Since the monetarists reckon that it takes six to nine months for changes in the money supply to have an impact on the economy, they found it natural that business hit an air pocket in the late summer. Many other economists, notably liberal...