Word: followings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Wall Street lawyer turned retired golfer. But by the time the novel reaches its own crisis Percy has launched so many conflicting ideas into the narrative--like a crazed club pro madly driving his golf balls into the fairway--that the reader has no idea which to follow, which to ignore. Will Barrett, Percy's protagonist, leads a remarkably untroubled life, driving his Mercedes 450 SEL to the golf course and then back home. Only memories disturb his endowed existence: as This Second Coming unfolds he mentally pieces together the events of a day in his early teens when...
More often the writing is simply sloppy. Sentences are short and clipped. Percy, it seems, has an aversion to that durable punctuation standard, the quotation mark, and so throughout his novel its's difficult to follow who's saying what. Furthermore, he's acquired the annoying mannerism of changing speaker without warning or using the same pronoun successively to refer to different people. There are passages that becomes completely unintelligible...
...paranoid world-view is peculiar; it suggests that the Soviet Union could, by sowing the seeds of "disinformation" in the American press, influence public opinion so that it could achieve world hegemony without so much as aiming a nuclear weapon at New York. By simply urging Western journalists to follow their own instincts--by encouraging them to expose covert CIA activities, for example--the Soviets can immeasurably further their interests, and drive Western Europe out of the U.S. sphere of influence into their grimy hands...
...undivided and "eternal" capital of Israel. In response to the U.N. vote, all but three of the countries with envoys in Jerusalem announced that they would move to Tel Aviv, and by week's end it seemed likely that the rest would soon follow...
...said Venezuelan Ambassador Luis La Corte. "Its air, its light, its physical presence make it a completely distinct town. I will miss it very much." With sad resignation, Panama's Marina Mayo, at 35 the youngest envoy and the only female, took a soldierly view. "You have to follow orders," she said. "One is not entitled to personal feelings." Not so the Dominican Republic's José Villanueva, 60, the popular dean of the city's diplomatic corps who has lived in Jerusalem for the past nine years. "The whole thing is comic," he declared...