Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have grown accustomed to, if not content with, toll collectors. It is natural to assume that tolltakers are bored by what has to be the world's most monotonous job. Not so. Not on the Delaware Bridge anyway, if the long waiting list for jobs is any barometer. Shifts are regular: the same eight hours daily with two 15-minute beaks and a half-hour lunch five days a week. Salaries increase to $8.05 an hour within three years. All you have to do is count the axles on trucks slowing for the booth, make an appropriate "axle...
Brzezinski's labels too often seem facile, even interchangeable, and his theories too flexible, too clever by half. In 1977-78 he argued that the U.S. must learn to live with revolutionary change in Third World countries. Then, in 1979, without admitting a major shift in policy, he pushed vigorously, though unsuccessfully, for a policy of backing Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza to the bitter...
...those network links-to the shaping experiences of this generation may ultimately deny the New Right the long tenure in power that its intellectual energy would otherwise be likely to earn it." When the Left learns the technical tricks of the mail-order and other games, the balance will shift...
...left that returns to power may be so different from the New Dealers and their epigones that the term may prove a misnomer. With the shift in the nation away from the northern cities to suburbia, the west and even to the south, the goals of the reformers will change. And with an electorate that lives and votes by what it sees on television, the method too will vary. Broder talks frequently about change and leaves it at that; he does not pretend to know what kind of change. That's too bad, but at least it's honest...
Smatterings of vague humility, however, do punctuate choice sections of Still Life. Every 75 pages or so, Robbins evaluates the performance of his Remington SL3, often admitting that somehow it is not performing up to par, despite the technological conveniences it manifests. Only once does he shift the blame for Still Life to himself, only once does he acknowledge the lone clear message conveyed by his prose--only once does he refer to himself as "an underdeveloped novelist with an overdeveloped typewriter." Yet he does take the poor machine out of it agony for the last half of the epilogue...