Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). A vivid memoir of a bizarre upbringing, dwelling not on hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a vast land where people are prepared to forget the past and believe anything...
...soft-spoken cop arrests are usually armed, and some take the news badly: at different times, men have tried to choke or shoot the agent. And so Leach is cautious as he pulls his rented Taurus into the driveway of the Friermood hunting lodge in the midst of Texas' vast Gulf Coast wetlands one clear morning this winter. Only two weeks earlier, Leach went duck hunting with a guide from the Friermood lodge, trading lies, and now he is returning as part of a 100-agent task force that will arrest 23 hunting guides and lodge owners scattered along...
...clearly designed "The Arrival," which is the first cut on this album to showcase the vast talents of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The meat of the piece is an offbeat dialogue between the dulcet tones of Marsalis' muted trumpet and the strong chords of Roberts' piano. The mood in this song is a light, happy one, reminiscent of Coltrane in parts. But the tone is definitely more mellow than some of the other cuts on this album...
HUNDREDS of students were shortchanged last week--lotteried out or dismissed from their Literature and Arts B classes because of overcrowding. When "Jazz," "Monuments of Japan," and "Modern Art and Abstraction" turned away vast numbers of students in their lotteries, a chain-reaction of confusion ensued...
...filing of a record number of course change petitions, as students attempted to correct problems in their schedules with Drop/Add forms. Ironically, one of the aims of the new plan was to enable faculty to get an idea of the composition of their classes sooner; the vast number of last-minute changes shows the falsity of this reasoning...