Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poetry by some oppressed New England saint; she preferred to scrutinize fictional heroines familiar to us all. Given the title of her lecture. "Seduced and Betrayed Women in Fiction," I had at least expected a descent into revealing murky depths along this pleasant stroll. But Hardwick's approach remained brisk and cheerful. Her "different way of seeing things now" did not represent a rallying-cry to the oppressed, to the long-suffering victims of sexual exploitation and abandonment, but an elementary lesson in power politics: meet your favorite heroine and watch her gain power through victimization. From the bronchial death...
...drafting full-employment plans. Along with fellow Princetonian William Branson, he is the author of the Senator's proposal for a $10 billion pump-priming infusion of federal funds into public projects that would, according to their projections, lower the unemployment rate from 5.5% to 4% or less. Brisk and talkative, Fair has been gratified to see many of his memos appear almost verbatim in McGovern's speeches and congressional testimony...
...brisk season for cops-and-killers thrillers, Report to the Commissioner is as good technically as the recent Friends of Eddie Coyle, though it lacks that book's wild eloquence and humor. Mills has the knack of clothing anger in fact, and he is one of the few writers today who understand police work and can make policemen both believable and human. The most interesting thing about his novel is the squaring off between the young cop, whose name is Bo Lockley, and the police establishment. Bo is an inept, unskeptical idealist, "hurt by animals he didn...
...plenty of white space, rewrote some passages, and dropped most Old Testament references. The reputable firm of Pocket Books has 100,000 copies of this rip-off in print. A better bargain is Pocket Books' 95? Good News for Modern Man, the American Bible Society's brisk translation not only of Levi Alphaeus' Gospel, but all the rest of the New Testament...
Nicolette Milnes Walker, 28, is a brisk British girl who describes herself as a humanist and hedonist and claims to make decisions by balancing pleasure against conscience. When these conflict too horrendously she flips a coin for or against; but instead of abiding by the toss she analyzes whether or not she is happy with the result and if not, overthrows the coin's decision. Perhaps following such methods-though she admits wanting to get away from it all and to impress men-Nicolette decided to sail all alone across the Atlantic...