Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will join a world of plastic to a world of Gothic stone? These are the persistent questions of J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban), with Flannery O'Connor the finest American writer on Catholic themes. Powers' new group of short stories provides no answer, only a cosmic sigh...
...Charles River was still. Its banks bore the mark of the hundreds of picnicing spectators, its bridges had managed tc withstand the onslaught of the some 677 shells and skulls that had weaved their way up the river, and its waters, in general, seemed to breath a huge sigh of relief. The rowing extravaganza of the fall season, The Head of the Charles Regatta, had come and gone and the Ol' Man was still rolling along...
...heaving and falling over itself like a nest of insects to its dugout and its own locker room. The ball is discarded somewhere or hoarded. The universe of hope is now one, ordinary, baseball. The people are very tired. The World Series is over in a huge collective sigh...
...Rice is dead and gone. I try to look at the bright side. For one, now in a possible World Series Cecil Cooper can start with Dwight Evans preserved at right field. Cooper on first and Yaz at left--no more problem of dumping the designated hitter. But (sigh) manager Darrell Johnson will probably start Carbo or something... And, uh, Rice wasn't hitting so well in the past week anyway--chopping his swing and neutralizing his power. Hah. It's very depressing. And you have to feel most sorry, ruthless or not, for the handsome black man, perhaps...
...There has been a growing consciousness that the U.S. will inevitably have to be more concerned about Europe. In that sense, you could detect a sigh of relief in Europe that the war had ended. But what we cannot forget is that the full ramifications of events in Southeast Asia have yet to be felt. Because that is so, we should not delude ourselves into thinking that the short-term benefits of U.S. withdrawal will not be put to a very severe test as the historical consequences of a fundamental shift in power relationships in Southeast Asia become clear...