Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regarded as the quintessential banana republic. Though the country has been stable for the past 3½ years, some sophisticated Ecuadorians still evaluate coups the way other people rate horses or vintage wines. Last weekend's abortive attempt to oust President Guillermo Rodriguez Lara, which left in its wake 17 people dead and 80 wounded, ranked very low on the scale. "I've never seen a coup so stupidly organized," sniffed one Quito connoisseur...
Freshmen living in the Quad often feel somewhat isolated from the rest of their class. They're a minority, and sometines they feel like it. Radcliffe is a 15 to 20 minute walk from the Yard, which is right next to most of the classroom buildings. You can usually wake up in the Yard on the hour, and make it to class by five past--a good thing if you like to sleep late. But the walk to the Quad can be really pleasant, especially in the fall and spring, and many devout 'Cliffe dwellers say they like the feeling...
...Philip Marlowe gets mixed up with a huge bruiser named Moose Malloy. Moose is just out of jail and looking for his old girl friend Velma. Before she is run to ground, Marlowe works his way through L.A., low life to high society and back again, trailing in his wake subplots and an ever increasing number of corpses. This time around, Robert Mitchum stars as Marlowe. He is all wrong. For Chandler, Marlowe was a kind of rogue knight. Mitchum plays him with the same sloppy self-loathing that he has frequently used to demonstrate his superiority to a role...
...philosophy of the magazine's editor-publisher and sole owner, Michael Parkhurst. New Jersey-born Parkhurst, 41, became an owner-operator trucker at 17 but sold his rig after ten years and used the money to start Overdrive in Los Angeles, a major trucking center. He wanted "to wake the truckers up to the fact that they're slaves to a monopoly." Parkhurst would visit truck stops by horse for publicity, but service, not stunts, made Overdrive. It dug, exposed, and above all helped out. There have been graphic headlines (HOW YOUR SWEAT FINANCES CROOKS' CADILLACS...
Those two sardonic comments, overheard by a Western official, summarize the undercurrent of apprehension inside the Rumanian and Yugoslav governments in the wake of the Helsinki agreement. Both fear that the Soviet Union may be tempted to increase its pressure on Bucharest and Belgrade to forswear or curtail their independent ways...