Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BRIGHTEST INSTANT REPLAY. Of all the solitary catches and hits, baskets and goals, the singular sensation of the sporting year was Boston College's 5-ft. 9 3/4-in. Doug Flutie confirming his legend with two seconds and half a field to go. That one pass in a 47-45 fireworks display at Miami is a trophy for Flutie as tangible as a Heisman...
...singular complexity, Jewel is diligently faithful to its source, the late Paul Scott's magisterial four-volume novel known as the Raj Quartet. Like E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Scott's story circles around charges of rape and the trials, both personal and legal, that ensue. Like Forster, Scott asks how Britain, in some ways the smallest of small worlds, managed to govern India, one of the hugest and most heterogeneous of countries. But Scott's book is set about two decades later than Forster's, in the final five years of British...
...things familiar. The wonders of Africa, America and the Pacific glared peevishly back at the Georgian dilettanti from their wooden dens and dirty straw. "Just arrived from Botany-Bay," ran a newspaper advertisement in 1789, "three new live animals for the amusement of the public, with that 3 singular animal the African Savage, a noble Lion and Lioness, a pair of 3 beautiful Leopards, a Lynx, a Sangwin, the Arabian nightwalker ... the Spotted Negro attends from eleven to seven in the evening...
Verbalized ideas only encumber these primal parables. The singular glory of Sankai Juku is that it achieves almost pure metaphor. It is not like anything else...
Instead, he had to look Presidential and he was trapped by his own lack of intellectual vigor as well as a singular lack of experience in defending his government rather than attacking someone else's. How much longer could be retain credibility by dumping every failure on the Carter Administration when he has run the show for nearly four years? How Presidential could he look by rationalizing his every gaffe by blaming Congress? Not very, and Reagan was caught in his own Catch...