Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...savvy guide to fakery, Antiques You Can Decorate With, has just been published (Doubleday; $4.95), and it tells the amateur how to spot the ingenious techniques used by practitioners of the minor art of "antique manufacturing." The author, George Grotz, 44, started out as a spare-time furniture refinisher, steeped himself in the subject for 15 years, wrote several books as well as a $1 pamphlet, From Gunk to Glow, the sales of which have reached 800,000. Grotz (rhymes with gloats) maintains that modern-day "antique manufacturers" can be found not only in Italy, France and Hong Kong. There...
...Evans and Abernethy argued their cases-while the other was out of the room. When it came to a vote, the twelve-man board was split down the middle. Trying for compromise, they told Evans that while Chapin and Luneburg could replace Abernethy, the company had little cash to spare for three top-level salaries. Evans got the hint, and bowed out with Abernethy...
...courage and to spend a good deal of money on imaginative solutions to Princeton's social problems. There is no reason to believe that any such changes are in the works. The nation that students are going to come up with the answers to these problems in their spare time is at best an unrealistic expectation, and at worst, a surrender to the programming of Princeton's Alumni Inertial Guidance System, which keeps us safely on course and out of harm's way--the twentieth century...
...plot is as spare as the dialogue, and it never totally unravels. After six years of teaching at an American university, Teddy, a philosophy professor (Michael Craig), brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to North London to meet his widowed father, a bachelor uncle, and two younger brothers. An amoral crew with the ethics of asphalt-jungle cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm...
...story have the ring of authenticity. Author Holland got her expertise at the Connecticut College for Women, where she specialized in the Hungarian Renaissance, but there is more in her book than research. As in her fine first novel, Firedrake (TIME, Feb. 18), Cecelia Holland writes a spare, masculine prose and applies the technique of the good U.S. western to her feudal lords. She avoids the stage-prop flummery that clutters so many historical novels, and in her dialogue she steers a middle course between the "Prithee, m'lord" school and modern idiom. Most surprising...