Word: vein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes the novel a little more than a flighty drag is Vidal's stylish and erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative...
Continuing in a statistical vein, he noted only one-tenth of one per cent of eligible Peace Corps men have had trouble with their draft boards. If that happens, said Vaughn, all the Corps officials--and in one case even the King of Nepal--write to the boards and General Hershey saying "you can't do that." This policy has been successful, he said...
...similar vein, the Rev. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church in America, warned his pastors last week that "unless a massive improvement of the lot of Negro ghettos comes quickly," the outlook is for "more destructive and bloody uprisings that are no longer going to be confined to the ghetto areas, but will be carried into white racial areas." Noting the nihilistic mood among many Negroes, Fry added: "The present situation is comparable to Samson when he destroyed the Temple of Dagon and himself along with it. Like him, many black brothers, blind...
This is Joyce at his worst, in his plush, provincial "poetic" vein, which even the captain of the Joyce industry, Dr. Ellmann himself, delicately refers to as a "rather anemic style." And Giacomo gets no better...
...normal. Now it fell within a few hours to a low normal. In an effort to keep the count from dropping fatally close to zero, the hematologists centrifuged eight pints of fresh blood to separate the white cells and infused an estimated 25 billion of them into an arm vein. Even then Washkansky's white count did not rise. Destruction of cells was obviously continuing...