Word: surfeited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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London's Surfeit of Riches...
...kinds of situations impel companies to merge - too much or too little cash, a shortage or a surfeit of able executives, tax advantages or growth-manship. Last week two large but little-known conglomerates agreed to unite for an equally compelling reason: they were practically married anyway. Toronto-based International Utilities Corp...
...behind the shock; here, it is a disservice to the author. In this and his other poems, Bidart exercises a kind of Jewish irony in his diction which recalls Alan Dugan, last year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. This is certainly a refreshing change from the surfeit of pseudo-Lowell which burdens other magazines. Bidart's conversations are pleasantly conversational, and his imagery works primarily to advance the narrative. With deceptive simplicity, he sketches the complex relationship between the poet and his subject in these lines...
...books (A Flash of Green, The Girl, the Goldwatch and Everything) that have sold 32 million copies around the world. His fans will know just what ingredients to expect in his newest novel: busy, well populated pages, a swift and intricate plot, strong characters, believable dialogue, a surfeit of sex and violence. The late Ian Fleming, no mean tale spinner himself, said, "I automatically buy every John D. MacDonald as it comes...
...down to 5 to 1 in small towns, 3 to 1 in New York and other Eastern cities. In California and Flor ida, where many unmarried pregnant women go to have their babies-presumably to combine a vacation with a secret confinement-there is a surfeit of available infants...