Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas is a readable writer, and the events of the McCarthy period provide fine substance for his narrative sweep. Although he warns that his book is not a biography, Thomas convincingly illustrates the days of McCarthy's life. He settles on the metaphor of the buccaneer, and the book's thesis--if it can be said to have one--is that McCarthy had neither principles nor politics, but only the pirate's instinct to hit and run. One wonders why Thomas insists on so distinguishing this book as a non-biography. To be sure, he has glossed over the Senator...
...just one year ago this week that Richard Nixon was celebrating his fabulous electoral sweep and seemed to stand at the very summit of power and opportunity. Hard-core Nixon haters may gloat over his fall from those heights; for most Americans it is a matter of profound disappointment. The editors of Time Inc., speaking on the editorial page of TIME's sister publication LIFE, have endorsed Nixon for President three times, in 1960, 1968 and 1972. We did so with acknowledgments that aspects of the Nixon record and temperament were troubling, but we believed that his strengths of intellect...
...this is a vision which may prove unsatisfactory. Fairy Tale is a book of vignettes and strings of first impressions, and therefore Christian sits uneasily as a symbol of New York, and the work is not equipped to cover the sweep of a great city. For such broad subjects, Fairy Tale is a narrow perspective, but like its hero and his hometown, it gains a hearing by being brash and bizarre...
...ambitious project had been stalled for a decade-until the developer, the U.S.'s Collins Tuttle & Co., in 1969 recognized that only a well-connected Frenchman could sweep away the bureaucratic snarls and inspire the confidence of timid French financiers. The firm took on Aaron, the president of a small bank, as co-developer. Aristocratic, war-decorated Aaron, 57, steered the project through a thicket of government regulations. He also helped to stitch together an all-French syndicate of 40 banks, insurance companies and pension funds to finance it. Aaron not only received a fee for his services...
...first to themselves, then to one another, in order that they may keep on with their routine lives without remorse. If they did not, they could not possibly explain the ease, delight and satisfaction of their own well-fed existence, and the relative penury of those who sweep the basement floors, and clean the toilet bowls, and set the tables in the dining hall. It is for this reason that the Myth of Intellectual Hard Work ("higher endeavor," "more noble, more exacting, less forgiving aspiration") has to be fostered, advertised, believed, by those who are the beneficiaries of the Common...