Word: steams
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Helprin's big, rumbustious new novel is about four-fifths of a marvel. Helprin has simplified his language, though he still works up a good head of rhetorical steam, and he has moderated his enthusiasm for phantasmagoric set pieces. He has also picked themes -- war and loss, youth and age -- that suit a large, elaborate style. His hero is a 74-year-old Italian, Alessandro Giuliani, during World War I a soldier who fought the Austrians and, in 1964, the novel's present time, a professor of aesthetics. Alessandro meets Nicolo, a 17-year-old illiterate factory apprentice, when they...
...club would have to find two faculty advisors and apply to the Committee on College Life if it wanted official recognition, Jewett said. He added that such recognition could bring the clubs advantages such as access to University telephone service and steam heat and disadvantages such as stricter enforcement of rules against underage drinking...
...story, abandoned his first peace effort a year ago because of Israeli intransigence. Last week flashes of frustration occasionally cracked through his self-discipline. He slept poorly, acted testy with reporters after a 9 1/ 2-hour session with Syrian President Hafez Assad and went running to let off steam...
...used before, but the party leaders took him seriously. They called a quick recess, then returned to announce that the Politburo was proposing that Gorbachev's resignation not be considered. The motion passed overwhelmingly, 322-13, with 14 abstentions. It seems obvious now that no matter how much steam the hard-liners let off, the party has no ready alternative to Gorbachev...
...government] let Literatunaya Gazeta become a valve to let off steam for the boiling intellectuals," Vessenski says of his newspaper, which is owned by the independent and influential Union of Writers. "The newspaper had the right not only to criticize the case but also the system," he says...