Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab boycott of Egypt: Has any boycott ever succeeded? I expect the present one will be short-lived. We are brothers. Brothers quarrel but their quarrels don't last long...
...commercial bankers have campaigned to end the interest rate ceilings and the differential. But savings banks and savings and loan associations will fight fiercely to keep their little competitive extra. Already they are hurting. Outflows from their coffers into higher-yielding short-term securities amounted to more than $2 billion in April. Earnings for savings institutions are expected to be down...
Baker did not see himself as a humorist when he started the column, he says, and still doesn't really. His intention was "to write plain English, Anglo-Saxon root words and short sentences for readers of the Times, who were suffocating on polysyllabic, Latinate English." If he had models, he says, they were E.B. White's "Talk of the Town" pieces for The New Yorker and his mentor at the Times, James Reston. Says he: "Reston taught the Times to write English...
Unfortunately, as in his previous operas, Tippett's libretto falls short of his music. The harder he tries to be colloquial or hip, the more stilted he becomes ("What's bugging you, man?/ Cool and jivey once;/ Now, touchy and tight"). His three acts of roughly 30 minutes each are so compressed that they allow no development, leaving on the mind's eye only a flashing succession of emblems...
...first-rate comic art, the funnier the surfaces the sadder the depths. Nowhere is that clearer than in the novels and short stories of Stanley Elkin, whose improvisations on the American way and the English language make him our foremost literary jazz band. His most exuberant characters-a department store owner, a bail bondsman, an itinerant radio announcer-combine the energy and appetites of the Middle West with the legendary qualities of Sholom Aleichem's villagers. Elkin makes much joyful noise unto the Lord, but there is also banter to deflect the wrath, and complaining because it might...