Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, it is only rarely that she manages a pointed anecdote. Her writing style (or her ghost writer's) is tacky and trite, and she often lapses into Watergate language...
...overhaul his image. Earlier in the week he vowed that 1976 "will be my last campaign"-unless, of course, he is campaigning for re-election to the presidency in 1980, an eventuality that strikes everybody but Wallace and his staunchest supporters as inconceivable. Accordingly, Wallace is modifying his style and some-but by no means all -of his themes...
Fulbright, who left the Senate last year and joined a Washington law firm, blames the "new inquisitorial style" of journalism for spreading "cynicism and disillusion." Says he: "Everything revealed about the CIA or dubious campaign practices may be wholly or largely true, but I have come to feel of late that these are not the kind of truths we most need now; these are truths which must injure if not kill the nation." He deplores "the new investigative journalism" for its preoccupation "with the tracking down and punishment of wrongdoers, with giving them their just deserts." He adds...
...never again" came only too quickly to her. She was capable of emotional fixity that makes the poems written just before her suicide in 1963 nearly unbearable: pictures of rage and despair drawn virtually in words of one syllable. Her novel The Bell Jar, while written in quasi-Salinger style, is a remorseless account of adolescent breakdown...
...have thus far found no conclusive evidence that they had a written language. But there is ample evidence that the ancient city enjoyed considerable prestige. A political and religious center dug up near Guatemala City shows what Pennsylvania State University Archaeologist William Sanders considers "a slavish imitation of Teotihuacan style." Artifacts unearthed in Belize, 700 miles away, show a similar influence...