Word: bedevilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the reasons, Wall Street this week seemed convinced that inflation would continue to bedevil the economy. After rising sharply during the first half of the year, largely on hopes that inflation had abated and the recovery was well under way, the stock market has tumbled recently. Last week the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 805, down 21 points for the week. Bond prices also dipped on news of the July rise in living costs, and interest rates continued to creep upward-a sign that lenders, too, expect inflation to remain rampant and are determined to extract a higher...
Intoxicating Malice. O'Hanlon's most controversial, heart-rending chap ter is one in which he blames the Ul ster savagery on the frustrations of Irish family life. In the Catholic Republic and the outposts in Londonderry and Bel fast, he argues, swarms of unwanted children bedevil hopeless parents: "Any body who lives in Ireland can testify to the absence of love in the average home." Fathers drink too much, then beat their wives and children with heavy, indiscriminate hands. Violence learned at the hearth is later re-enacted in the Irish Republican Army...
...more than occasional skier, does not have much of a background as a manager despite his many years at Polaroid. An M.I.T.-trained engineer, he helped Land develop the first instant-picture camera in the 1940s. Lately his main job has been to work out the problems that still bedevil production of the SX-70, Polaroid's revolutionary instant-color camera, and have cut deeply into the company's earnings. Unlike Wyman, McCune is not the sort to chafe at Land's tight grip. He has said in the past that he accepts Land's managerial...
Traditional novelists toss pebbles into domestic pools and then take notes. The postwar fashion has been to track these projectiles directly into the muck below, but there is another, older way. As masters like Henry James and Virginia Woolf knew, the ripples on the surface can bedevil the eye and engage the mind. Before My Time brushes up this earlier technique. It transforms a brief disturbance of hearth and home into an age of anxiety...
...bound by the very forms Fitzgerald criticized. How spectacularly would it make the Gatsby story. Make it--it would make it over. Imagine the spectacular to come of the match. It's the Hollywood movie dream. It's also Hollywood's hubris--Fitzgerald's devil returned to bedevil Hollywood...