Word: snippets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...references to Jos Sedley, the buffoon in Vanity Fair, underscores the scope of Darwin's literary erudition, if not his uncanny ability to always fit the quote to the situation at hand. It is a difficult task indeed to find a paragraph in Mostly Golf free of a literary snippet. Darwin was as at home writing an introduction to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations as he was smashing a niblick off the Kentish heath...
...That snippet of typically Israeli black humor rings mighty true. The inflation rate in Israel during 1976 averaged 42%. The foreign debt stands at $10.7 billion-which is roughly the same as Israel's gross national product. By the most generous reckoning the G.N.P. grew by 2.8% last year. And the unemployment rate, which in the past hardly ever rose above 3%, is creeping up toward 5%. Small wonder that the economy is a central issue in this spring's special elections forced by the resignation of Premier Yitzhak Rabin (TIME...
...glib attempt to examine a fundamentally irreligious society through a religious haze. The lines that emerge as the play's philosophical premise--"So man created God. What for? To see limits on himself."--never become very meaningful or especially convincing. Nonetheless, on opening night one could extract a snippet, albeit strained, of still-valid revelation from the Ex's proficient production... When the cast shared apples from the Tree of Knowledge with the audience, somebody murmured amid the general crunching, "It's delicious...
Despite the blunt language of these polemics, it was too early to say whether China was on the verge of another drastic revolutionary upheaval. One snippet of evidence: Richard Nixon's visit to Peking later this month-commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Peking summit that inaugurated an era of Sino-American détente-had not been canceled. In welcoming the former President, Peking seemed to be rebuking the present Administration in Washington for failing to take a harder line against China's revisionist enemies in Moscow. Nonetheless, the visit affirmed the importance that Peking continues...
...writers eschew straightforward prose for witty, self-consciously absurd jottings that don't give as much insight into Cunningham as into the ambience surrounding him. In "Where Are We Eating? And What Are We Eating?" John Cage catalogs the company's favorite haunts from Brownsville to Bombay. A typical snippet...