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Rabbit now sees himself as a C-minus human being, and practically boasts, "1 don't think enough to know what 1 think." His gut reaction to difficult issues is a cynical conservatism. Like so many lifers with little hope of parole, he defends his prison because he must live in it. From this human and literary dead end, Updike leads Rabbit back to a measure of vitality. Not surprisingly, the agents of change come courtesy of the youth rebellion and those threatening yet fascinating blacks...
...game began as a dull defensive struggle, for Dartmouth's total offense in the first period was minus 1 yard while the Eli only ground out plus...
...MINUS ADVANTAGE: An unsuccessful project that left those who planned it worse off than before...
...ordinarily taken to refer to a candidate's political beliefs. 2) My listing of DiCara's appearance was not a slur, but merely an observation that he did not lit the image of the Harvard grandee. I submit that this image does exist, and that it would be a minus factor if DiCara conformed to it. Of my own height, waist-line, nose or hairline, of course, Grillo knows nothing. Lastly, I stand by my observation that racial and ethnic origin, community rootism, and strength of organization are often of coequal importance with political stands in Boston elections--and, indeed...
...standard on the grounds that it is ill-conceived, inadequately researched and unrealistic. The biggest problem is time. The automakers contend that since air bags are not yet perfected, they cannot be installed by the deadline. Reflecting this, production lines for 1974 models have already been prepared-minus air bags...