Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have ever admired Styron's technique, and all the tedious overwriting remains intact, the words like "thaumaturges" and "matutinal," the heavy-handed imagery: "A truck's wheel striking a pothole on the street made a clamor like the slamming of the gates of hell." These characters talk a lot, long bloated monologues that go on for pages. And there's at least one passage that has no place in a hardcover of any kind, much less a major novel...
Tripp, however, says, "All I did was host a group of people last year. At that time I made it clear I could not be in charge. The best fellow to talk to would be Russ Sibley...
...were so shocked," Elizabeth R. Mason '81, one of the fifteen SHS board members last year, said of the survey's findings. She shouldn't have been. The so-called guides--selected on the basis of a brief application form--were let loose in September with only a pep talk from Kyriazi. Although the SHS charter empowers the board to "conduct ongoing evaluations of the program" and to dismiss guides who fail to "perform required duties," board members never checked up on the guides until January. "By the time we realized that we had done something wrong...
...settlement comes at a time when the Administration is working to revise and make more flexible its voluntary wage-price guidelines. They currently limit wage and benefit increases to 7% a year, which is well below the auto settlement. Indeed, there is talk that the wages and benefits achieved in Detroit could become the standard for the new guidelines. If that means approving settlements of close to 12% annually over the next year, the Administration's chances of effectively combatting inflation...
...legally bound himself to NBC, the network contends, until April 1981. Network sources also say the contract stipulates that he not do a talk show for anybody else for a year after that. To settle the argument quickly, both sides have taken advantage of a legal short cut and submitted their case to retired Judge Parks Stillwell. Even so, his decision may not be ready for several months...