Word: lurching
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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NICARAGUA. Though it sent tremors through the rest of the region, the Sandinista-led revolution has brought a measure of uneasy stability at home. The collective Sandinista leadership, whose ranks include a number of self-proclaimed Marxists, has so far avoided the radical lurch to the left that its critics feared. The revolution that toppled Somoza was followed by no mass executions...
...England Conservatory of Music, parcels out the blame in three directions. The musicians' union, or at least the union mentality of the players, has fostered a grudging, clock-watching approach to rehearsing and performing, he says; jet-age music directors have left their orchestras in an artistic lurch while pursuing second and third careers elsewhere; managements and boards of trustees have run the show with the box office uppermost in their minds. "Out of sheer ignorance or arrogance, many boards have time and again made lamentable decisions," argues Schuller. "We should have obligatory training courses for prospective trustees...
...result is a continuous and inefficient scramble for scarce resources, as planners lurch uncertainly from one high-priority project to the next. One such enterprise is the 2,000-mile-long Baikal-Amur Mainline railway across Siberia. This has become an engineer's nightmare, as any study would have shown. Huge stretches freeze solid in the winter and then become quagmires during summer...
Welcome to the company of frustrated Boston sports fans. Maybe you who will be here for but a short while will prove capable of resisting the discrete charm of the city's professional athletic assemblages, which have shown an unparalleled ability to lurch from crisis to crisis in a manner reminiscent of the country's foreign policy makers. More likely, you, too, will fall prey to the lure of the Green Monster and the Sirens of Swat...
...quite a narrative trick, one that allows the author to hit the emotional highs and bawdy lows of Shapiro's lurch through a world of dubious achievements and even more dubious respectability. Joshua, with his raffish background and inherited street smarts, is an arbiter of such matters. Most of his childhood friends make it to Montreal's affluent suburbs and lose their roots in wall-to-wall carpeting. To put on occasional airs is human, but to be a full-time phony is to risk devastating caricature, like Yossel Kugelman who becomes Psychiatrist Jonathan Cole, author...