Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Business story on the economic prospects for 1976. To protect his staff from scholarly hedging, Business Editor George Church started the meeting by dipping into his store of anecdotes. "After consulting the leading economists of his day about where the economy was going and getting a constant stream of forecasts of 'On the one hand this and on the other hand that,' Harry Truman allegedly said, 'Hell, what I need is a one-armed economist.' " Still, Reporter-Researchers Hilary Ostlere, Allan Hill and Sarah Button were struck by the almost universal comment of one economist...
...student activists furnished The Crimson and the local press with a steady stream of private administration documents. With the advent of the New Mood on Campus in recent days, The Crimson is reduced to generating its own internal memoranda--this, from the office of Charles U. Daly, vice-president for government and community affairs...
...courts below, Barnaby's number three disciple Jeff Wiegand was in mid-stream of blanking his midshipman. In the courts above, 6th and 7th ranked sophomores Mark Panarese and Ned Bacon also scored shutouts in their first varsity games...
...week's end Ford stuffed his pipes and pipe cleaners, his Field & Stream tobacco and his important documents into his worn old brown briefcase with the red tag that says THE PRESIDENT. He finally shut off the endless flow of presidential paper, patted the family dog, and headed toward the Middle Kingdom, which according to legend lies somewhere between earth and heaven...
Although much of the dialogue is of this simple nature, the stream of consciousness and diary passages of the novel are very elegant in their prose, though occasionally a little too literary. The diary of Alpha, a primary school teacher who married Martin Neumiller, discusses the philosophy of religion along with her new school marm duties. Yet the portrayal of women is highly sensitive and the pattern of symbols in the novel, particularly in the discussions of time and the land, is rich and complex...