Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zapp's walk-on particularly illustrates, Lodge has more verve in academic settings than in his conscientiously worked-up factory scenes, and naturally so. He taught literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960 to 1987, and still holds an honorary chair there. But in either sphere his writing displays the wicked eye of a born satirist. Swallow's smile exposes teeth set at odd angles, "like tombstones in a neglected churchyard." A receptionist at Vic's factory strokes her platinum-blond hairdo "as if it were an ailing pet." This is a novel that lives...
...easy to understand the sense of pride the nation took in its accomplishment. After all, hadn't America been founded on just the same spirit of adventure and exploration? Didn't the sheer effort required to catapult three astronauts millions of miles beyond their native sphere attest, once and for all, to the dominance of American technology...
...soul refused to deify the sun. The Greek philosopher Anaxagoras brazenly claimed that it was merely a ball of fiery stone, and was arrested and banished from Athens for his blasphemy. But his radical concept caught on and was later refined by Aristotle, who proclaimed the sun an unchanging sphere of pure fire, devoid of any imperfections...
From other radical speakers came a similar catalog of complaints. Journalist-Deputy Yuri Chernichenko took a daring jab at Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev, wondering why he had been placed in charge of agriculture when "he was absolutely ignorant of this sphere and had failed with ideology." Others called for a review of the events in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, when soldiers and riot squads attacked demonstrators with shovels and, it is alleged, with poison gas, killing 20. The probing questions continued until the new First Vice President and nonvoting Politburo member, Anatoli Lukyanov, was moved to read...
...ignorance of the subject. The moving and shaking does not stop after college either. It is ironic that Professor Kilson makes reference to the esteemed Reverend Jesse. L. Jackson, a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., in his tirade against Black Greeks. His presence in the American political sphere is echoed by the staggering number of Blacks in prominent positions who are affiliated with Black Greek organizations...