Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior citizens' center and attempting to keep Moses ideologically pure in materialistic America. Harassed by the contradictory demands of profession, middle-class responsibilities, nostalgia for old political ideals and the desire for a comfortable upper-bohemian style of life (not to mention a broken arm, for which he invents colorfully violent explanations as the occasion demands), Moses finds temporary resolutions to his conflicts in wisecracks, pretended cynicism and continual bustle...
...Warsaw's main street in 1928, has become a familiar one to shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West Side. The author's first words, when informed of the Nobel Prize, were typically effacing: "Are you sure?" Singer has no plans to change either his life-style or prose style: "Everything will remain the same -same typewriter, same wife, same apartment, same telephone number, same language. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each...
...least they could have come back in style...
Winthrop was the first to speak before the Student Assembly during the election on Thursday and he impressed the group with his casual manner and articulate, confident style of speaking...
...smooth style was not the only factor in the election. Winthrop had done his homework. He had talked to many of the assembly's delegates before its meeting Thursday...