Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranians seem to have concentrated on the men in their efforts to get information about embassy activities. James Hughes, 30, one of the embassy's military personnel, was blindfolded and made to sit on a table during an interrogation...
...best, right there with the politicians, describing what goes on in their heads and evaluating the quality thereof. Strout is a remarkably acute judge of character. On Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R.-Wisc.), in early 1950 before most knew him well and before McCarthyism was a word: "It would seem easy to pin down the preposterous utterances, but no; McCarthy is as hard to catch as a mist--a mist that carries lethal contagion." On Vice President Richard Nixon: "In politics this quiet young man is a killer....He is out for the kill and the scalp at any cost...
...mother-love. His Keith Richards is a vicious junkie, a coward, a racist, a cruel manipulator. Richards exploits Sanchez throughout, to smuggle drugs or take the rap for auto accidents or whatever. Since he was paying Sanchez a grand a month to do almost nothing, it doesn't seem all that reprehensible...
...freshmen seem able to pick up whatever leadership slack left by the exodus of upperclassmen from the squad. Walsh noted that the "the freshmen are leaders; they're not waiting for upperclassmen to lead them...
James' characters, without James' words, seem thin even to a ready observer of human nature...