Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaving in 1930, Barzini narrowly escaped the plague of disillusion that followed in the wake of the Depression. To the weary European of 68, the U.S. remains the only place he can still find a special amalgam of innocence and expectation...
Hold it! If this country had any morality left it would give Judge Frank Wilson a new identity and send him into hiding. His shame is equal only to Lowe's sense of right. Wake up, people...
...atmosphere of post-Franco politics, the Spanish economy has been left largely to its own long-deteriorating devices. "We have been living a drunken fiesta of reform and democracy, and the economy has been forgotten," complains one leading businessman. "When the election is finally over we are going to wake up with a monumental hangover...
...liquidate his ailing father's highway-construction business. Instead, he and a cousin revved up the company, branched into trucking and started hauling coal. The partners took over a money-losing coal company and started acquiring leases on vast carboniferous acreage. When coal prices soared in the wake of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, Burford struck it rich. He struck it even richer last fall by selling his biggest holdings for $10 million, retaining royalty rights that could net him and his partner another $10 million. The sad thing, says Burford, is that "nobody else can do what...
Indeed they will, along with those of unaffiliated amateurs rediscovering an eminent Victorian fantasy. As the wasp clearly demonstrates, the Alice books, like Finnegans Wake, are novels in the form of dreams, granting wit to animals and game pieces, annihilating space and natural law. The Rev. Charles Dodgson considered these volumes mere entertainments. Most of the author's adult life was spent as an Oxford don, pursuing the arcana of mathematics and logic...