Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clod, alternately tongue-lashes him as a clownish bore and lapses broodily into tears. Irina (Shirley Knight) has made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand life on their own terms, too proud to beg for it, and too honorable to steal happiness on the sly. They dream of going to Moscow, the perennial illusion of the despairing that life is more real, rich and exciting somewhere else...
...Italy, Economist Guido Carli, governor of the central bank, has prescribed strong medicine for the country's debilitating inflation. With the patchwork government of Premier Aldo Moro too weak to take effective action, Carli on his own tightened credit and restricted borrowing from abroad. A convincing negotiator, he was called upon by Moro to persuade socialists and labor leaders to temper their own wage demands and agree to reduced government spending. One result of Carli's influence: Italy's trade balance is improving for the first time in two years...
...central figures are Anne Duncan, a waitress and technically a virgin, and Zeke Daniels, the braggartly buffoon who marries her. There are assorted relatives: Anne has a weak, churchly mother, Zeke a managing mother and a popinjay father who struts in Klan robes. They are presented in a protracted series of flashbacks leading from the marriage of Anne and Zeke. The flashbacks do not resolve down to a nub of meaning but are centrifugal, leading away from meaning into the thinning reaches of an infinity of pointlessness. Conversations take place but nothing is said. Eventually the book stops, Farrell having...
Sounds & Sights. While alive, the brains' EEG charts show a continuous flow of electrical signals, and Dr. White can communicate with them. When he rings a bell near the stump of a brain's auditory nerve, he gets an electrical reaction. When a needle carrying weak electric current touches the stump of the optic nerve, the visual part of the brain responds...
...quite true that I am old bones," he began in that gravel voice before which many an editor learned to quail. "My legs are very weak, but I still have something in the way of a head. I am still headstrong, and self-willed at that. I will try to make you a speech. Many shrewd observers will say that I have not had any pattern or continuous theme in my long life. Certainly I have. But I have never been a successful leader. I have always been an apprentice...