Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gibberish. Even the author admitted he had thrown together "enough material for four novels." Turgenev described A Raw Youth as "sour stuff-the stench of the sickroom, unprofitable gibberish." And on the occasion of this new edition, John Updike condemns the novel for a "penetrating badness that casts doubt over even the peaks of an author's accomplishment...
...team became interested in the condition when baffled private physicians began referring individual patients to neurologists. The Government scientists studied 35 of the 3,000 Americans known to suffer from idiopathic hypogeusia. The doctors confirmed the symptoms by placing drops of sour, sweet, salt and bitter solutions on the subjects' tongues and holding solutions smelling like onions or burned rubber under their noses. The NIH researchers were puzzled as to the cause of the condition but decided that it does not appear to be psychosomatic. At least half of the patients developed their symptoms following influenza-like illnesses. Others...
When they opened the door to more realistic relations with the U.S., China's leaders undertook a trying and delicate task. They had to talk tough enough to persuade their militant allies that they were not going soft on their longtime archenemies, yet not so tough as to sour the impending visit by Richard Nixon. The act requires some intricate diplomatic fugues, but so far Peking appears to be equal to the challenge...
...insured education loans are commonly running at 4% to 6%, van average of less than 1% for ordinary auto, home-improvement and other consumer loans. The student delinquency problem is especially severe in California. The Bank of America reports that some 15% of its federally insured student loans go sour...
TIME'S survey also turned up a scattering of sour gripes. The Chicago Tribune shrugged off the Sun-Times disclosures as a "rehash" because some of its material had previously been published elsewhere. Boston's Herald Traveler ignored the revelations of the rival Globe. Detroit News Editor Martin Hayden, beaten by the Knight's competing Free Press, complained that the Pentagon study was "only offered to the so-called antiwar papers." And the Houston Post did not even mention the dis closures until Attorney General John Mitchell moved against the Times, four days after the story broke...