Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture of Malek that emerges from the committee questioning is one of a shrewd operator who, although his involvement seems awfully suspect, managed unlike his colleagues to avoid any traceable connection to illegal activities...
...make us laugh, it can make us weep, and if it is pornography and we are young, it can make us come. It can also, of course, make us sleep; and though in the frequent discussion of the writer's social purpose this soporific effect is unfailingly ignored, I suspect it is the most widespread practical effect of writing...
INTERESTING AND AMUSING as this sort of anthology can be, there is in the end a feeling of dissatisfaction. You suspect that it is more a creation of the publisher than the author. A potpourri of reviews whose topics are unfamiliar, of speeches never heard, can become repetitive. There is no overall conception, no theme, no characterization, so that the reader is deprived of the interest which comes when a book is creatively unified. Writing in The New Yorker pampers the trite, and even a writer as versatile as Updike often caters to a readership which can interest itself...
...past has been roundly condemned for strip-mining coal and then simply abandoning the ravaged land. Nowadays, the record is far better; by spending between $600 and $6,500 an acre, mining companies have restored some land in the Midwest and Pennsylvania so well that no one would suspect that the acreage had been stripped. In contrast with those areas, which are well watered, much of the West's coal lands get less than 10 inches of rainfall a year. Experts from the National Academy of Sciences doubt that fragile desert vegetation will regrow on such dry earth after...
Nevertheless, to blame the fans for a loss is simply absurd. The hockey team lost to Brown here but beat them in Providence without a band, without Section 18, and, I suspect, without a very large contingent of fans. They beat nationally-ranked Michigan State twice under similar conditions over the Christmas break. Harvard's squash team is the best in the country; yet they draw only a small fraction of the number of people who go to watch hockey. In short, a good team should not need a boisterous crowd to win! Art Powell...