Word: stale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967) only the first and the last deserve the title "Modern Classics," with which they have now been honored with by Penguin. Stories and Plays, published posthumously this year, is a dish of leftovers, most of which have long since gone stale, offered up by O'Brien's publishers to feed the now-open mouth of American literati...
...standards. He also wants to find a method of minimizing the danger of necessary reduction in faculty. As teaching staffs are pared, it is usually the younger, untenured faculty who are let go, and it is important, says Swearer, that those older, tenured teachers who remain do not get stale. One innovation that Swearer is considering: summer institutes for new teaching and research techniques, training in related academic disciplines and guidance in searching out other vocations...
Similar stories appear every month-and on glossier pages. Yet Novelist Brian Moore, 54, turns a potential stale helping of white wine and sympathy into an enigmatic moral thriller. In bed with her lover, Sheila sounds just like the lapsed Catholic she is: "I am in grace. In my state of grace." But what drives her-at the peak of her new-found happiness-to contemplate suicide? She is also obsessed with a more mundane form of annihilation: "Those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner...
...allusions and comparisons will not stick here, because Solaris is an unsettling, spooky and unfamiliar world. Or put it this way: You know how it feels to come out of a movie that creates a compelling, comfortable reality and to return into the yapping, yawning crowd, step in the stale popcorn and walk into the unalluring street, still as noisy and hot as before? Solaris produces just the opposite effect. You'll be glad when the lights go back...
Then Cambridge. The Charles a muddy sink with built-in garbage disposal. Walden Pond a kiddie matinee. Faucet water flat and stale as month-old Fritos. And even then, no shower attachment in the house. Sisters, mothers, water brothers, no place to go once a laughing river seduces you and runs away...