Word: styles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Recently the author let someone write an introduction to one of her books that strokes away your jitters; it says Giovanni "curses with a style and sense of the genteel, a freedom and control in an admirable balance that is impossible to imitate." Occasionally, she has quoted jingles in her essays that lend themselves to a certain style, like "Nothing black but a Cadillac," after which she added politely, "Niggers ought to be buried in Cadillacs because that's what's killing us." Gentility. GM, Lord & Taylor, Philco "new color" TV...but isn't that what she meant when...
...Breed of Athlete" is a Madison-Ave. style approach, cosmetic and facile, to the controversies and changes that the sports establishment is undergoing. After all, what can you say about a book that puts Bobby Riggs in the forefront of the "New Breed" of athlete...
Until recently, few democratic nations other than the U.S. have provided elaborate security arrangements for heads of state and government, and most still do not. The fashion of "pressing the flesh" U.S.-style has spread to other countries. But the traditional reserve and respect toward leaders in cultures older than that of the U.S. still often hold sway, as do moral and social restraints on aberrant individual behavior. Besides, foreign laws' often permit authorities to be tougher, locking suspects up arbitrarily when they think trouble may be brewing...
...House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church is rather like an old exclusive men's club. In normal times it goes through its business in sedately fraternal style. But these are not normal times. The ordination of women to the priesthood has developed into the most divisive Episcopal issue since the "high church-low church" wars of a century ago. Last week at their annual meeting in Portland, Me., the bishops voted 118-18 to censure three of their retired or resigned members for ordaining women priests in violation of church canons...
...wouldn't like it but it wouldn't drive me nuts," he writes, unaware of the brattiness implied by such conjecture. Yet in the end, Eden Express is a painfully honest document of a life in transition. The shift is even evident in the book's style. The early pages contain the sort of hippie jargon that franchises experience into junk food for thought. But by the end, Vonnegut has found a truer, more subdued voice that reaches out of his agony and concern. It is not quite grace under pressure, but it is that necessary first...