Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Since November, long-term interest rates have declined more swiftly than at any time in the last century. Rates on average-grade corporate bonds, for example, have fallen from 9.05% to 7.80%. A smaller drop in mortgage interest rates, which now average 8.45%, has helped builders to increase the annual rate of housing starts by 59% from January to November. The main force behind the housing rebound, however, has been an astonishing rise in federal subsidies and loans. About one-third of the houses and apartments built this year received some federal subsidy, and next year close to half...
Jumping Through Hoops. The year 1970 was also notable because, more than ever before, the talk about consumer protection turned into action. Many businessmen had long scoffed at consumerism: Campbell Soup President W.B. Murphy once called the movement "a fad, of the same order as the hula hoop." Through gutsy persistence-and with help from the ecological activists-consumer protectors have forced Government and business to change. This year businessmen had to jump through the hoops of federal regulations, frequently issued by agencies long considered too impotent...
Submerged Society. The teeming streets of London helped lend shape to Dickens' lifelong, horrified fascination with the submerged of Victorian society-the poor, the grotesque, especially the criminal. A long line of murderers stalk through Dickens' novels, from Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist to John Jasper in Edwin Drood. Among other things, they embody his belief in an irredeemable evil in human nature-a belief that tends to be forgotten because of the hilarity Dickens spread through even his darkest passages...
...part of the official commemoration of the centenary of Dickens' death. A centenary can be a fete worse than death. But at best it provides a good occasion to settle accounts, not just with Dickens but with his critics and interpreters. The past century has piled up a long bill of critical complaints that he was sentimental, arch and melodramatic; that he would never do what he could merely overdo. In recent decades, on the other hand, critics have rescued him from his earlier reputation as a hearthside moralist and improvising Toby-jug showman. Readers are now ready...
...London. He prowled its streets at night so much during his lifetime that he found it hard to write without the inspiration of his "magic lantern," as he called the city. When he pulled the reader along, says Wilson, he brought the first "cinematic mobility" to the English novel: long tracking shots, like Oliver Twist's escapades in grimy alleys, where the scenes flash by like some satanic carnival; wide panoramas, like the scene in the brickyard in Dombey and Son, where the city lies on the horizon like a vast, destructive machine; dreamlike overhead views, like the dawn...