Word: within
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daring burglar came within inches of successfully stealing Harvard's Gutenberg Bible from its resting place in Widener Library on August...
...What?" Some unknown force within Martin caused him to rise to his feet without knowing it. The short cord of the receiver was fully stretched, and the phone dangled at Martin's knees. Again he said, "What...
Performer Not Prophet. The real source of disappointment lay in a worshiping youthful expectation incapable of fulfillment. The prophet had brought no cataclysm, no revelation. That was hardly Dylan's fault. He has always been a performer who moved uneasily within his aura. He has never really courted audiences. That quality has helped him outgrow the limitations of his early successes. But it has also alienated some of his fans. There were early Dylan fanatics, for instance, who considered him guilty of betrayal when he first gave up the pure strains of folk music and adopted the electrified...
...Still, such a global surplus of wheat has piled up this year that producing nations are locked in a price war as they fight to get rid of their oversupply. The U.S., which allowed prices to sag last winter, has now reduced its wheat export prices three times within the past two months to counter cuts by Canada, Australia and France. The major wheat exporting nations are meeting this week in London, but despite their efforts, no agreement on a way to end the price cutting seems to be in sight...
Kennaway's view of life itself is crabbed: the cost of living like this, he suggests, is dying like that. Within its own well-blinkered range, the view is coldly accurate, a gloomy midpoint assessment by a gifted 40-year-old Scots writer (one of whose notable early accomplishments was Tunes of Glory). The gloom is deepened by the reader's knowledge that Kennaway died in an automobile accident late last year, not long after finishing this sixth novel...