Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world were fakers and he covered it as reporter and participant. Now Wolfe's tone is me and the silent majority (though stupid) are right and you suck, not nearly as appealing for a guy who used to be thought of, by people like me, as a potential Jonathan Swift reincarnate...
...fervent was Paine's message and so swift its circulation that by the beginning of March, Congress found itself behind the people. It hurried to catch up. On March 3, it sent Connecticut Delegate Silas Deane to France to negotiate for military aid; on the 14th, it voted to disarm all Loyalists; on the 19th, it authorized privateers to intercept British merchantmen; on the 26th, it placed an embargo on exports to Britain and the British West Indies. On April 6, it opened ports of trade to all nations except Britain. By May 10, John Adams was writing to James...
...gallery, an antique market and a genuine prehistoric dinosaur park and rock garden all in one fractious, febrile day. Still, it might be instructive to conjure Dickens, Trollope and Twain on the road in '76, launched in their camper in the northeastern corner of the U.S. for a swift, spirited, perforce highly selective, swing through the nation. Twain, naturally, wants to drive...
...quality of its malice. In the first installment of Answered Prayers, set at Manhattan's La Côte Basque restaurant during lunchtime, Capote was out to make his readers throw up while his characters ate. But he is merely a sniggering Boy Scout compared with Jonathan Swift, who, in A Tale of a Tub, had a character kneel in the street to pray, then void his bladder in the eyes of the passersby leaning over to investigate...
Robert Wussler, LL.D., president of CBS Television Network. Like one of Horatio Alger's youthful heroes, your rise from obscurity to power has been swift...