Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't want to comment at this time on the potential presidential candidacy of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54. (D-Mass). "I know, though, it's on everybody's minds." he says...
...though the purchases so far have not been huge, and will at most mean an increase in stock holdings of roughly 10 per cent, that's a significant move for Harvard's exceptionally prudent money managers--a sign that they believe the Fed's program will help the economy in the long run and revive both the markets and Harvard's latest investments...
Letters asks to be encapsulated, begs you for a precis on hind paws. Better, though, to let Barth himself summarize his beast...
...didn't, though; he wrote this bloat, and he tells us why over and over again in the course of it. (In fact, if you cut out all the self-conscious justifications for the denseness and length of Letters, it would probably become both readable and manageable...
...LOOK only at the large strokes in Letters, however, another explanation for its size emerges, one more believable, more acceptable, though less flattering to Barth. Each of his correspondents either relives or believes he is reliving a portion of his past life. Lady Amherst echoing Samuel Johnson, calls it "an epidemic rage for reenactment." Andrews draws up a detailed schedule of the events that led up to his first decision to commit suicide, and realizes he's reliving it all, and heading in the same direction. Each generation in the exhaustive family history of the Cook/Burlingame clan spends the first...