Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...autocratic talker, Edel zigzags from topic to topic, trailing half-spoken sentences in his wake. He sugars his more serious discussion-on the role of psychology in biography, methods of research, and narrative forms-with anecdotes culled from his past. An interest in the psychological novel, and in James as its exponent, led Edel to Paris in the 1920s. There, while a doctoral candidate at the Sorbonne, he encountered James Joyce. "Joyce once sat beside me at a reading, but his impassive face put me off," recalls Edel. "What could I say anyway?" he shrugs. " 'Mr. Joyce, I really...
...marked contrast to the encouraging results of President Carter's cautious domestic economic efforts, White House policy on the international front has been a growing source for grumbling. Last week disagreement with the Administration's foreign economic policy flared again in the wake of two developments: the plunge in the dollar's value to new lows against the West German mark, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen hi international money markets, and the Government's report of a record monthly foreign trade deficit of $2.82 billion for June. For the first six months...
Walter Lord has told his readers what it was like to go down with the Titanic (A Night to Remember), to fight at the Alamo (A Time to Stand) and to wake to the World War II overture one Honolulu morning in 1941 (Day of Infamy). As a popular chronicler of historic days and nights, the bestselling author relies heavily on eyewitness accounts from participants and survivors. Incredible Victory, his narrative of the Battle of Midway, crackled with aging voices from both sides. For Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons, the author traveled 40,000 miles (including a rugged three...
...with pen or mouth but with performance, and his silent, business-like approach to off-season criticism was rousingly successful. Park truly "did his job" as he had always done it at Harvard; emphasizing speed, pitching and defense, and seasoning it with his natural enthusiasm. In his wake he left many embarassed critics as Harvard baseball returned to its accustomed spot in the limelight from a one-year sabbatical. As Park himself summed up the past spring: "In just one year we came right back to where we were in 1975. It's gonna be a privilege again to play...
...University police have been beset by labor problems in recent months. Last March David L. Gorski resigned after two years as chief of University police in the wake of Harvard Police Association protests against his proposed reorganization of the University force...