Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Under Nixon's new plans he and Lodge will formally open their campaign early-next week with ceremonies at Baltimore's Friendship Airport. Then they will part company, with Lodge heading for Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Florida, Nixon setting out on a whirlwind tour that will take him to 18 cities and towns in 14 states over a span of six days. That schedule is typical of the grueling pace that Nixon has set for himself from the time he gets out of Walter Reed right down to election...
...seemed to respond more enthusiastically, to work up more steam. At one point he talked as though the rest of the nation wasn't listening, hinting broadly that trade protectionism could solve New England's industrial decline-an attitude quite different from the Democratic low tariff stance set by F.D.R. Said Kennedy in Manchester: "We can protect our textile and shoe industries...
Love & Flowers. By 1928 Mayakovsky was disillusioned enough to write The Bedbug, a satire of Communist society so pointed that even the dullest party hack was set to squirming. His villain is Prisypkin, a smug, card-carrying, vulgar proletarian who typifies the new Soviet man Prisypkin is stored in a freezer, and by 1978, in the last half of the play. Russian life has become so dehumanized that love tobacco, vodka, even flowers have become half-forgotten matters of history. Poor Prisypkin is now restored, and because of his simple humanity, he quickly becomes a curiosity. He asks for books...
...follows every step of Berman's descent into melancholia. His eye and ear, as he tells of Berman's deterioration, are so good that time after time readers may experience the discomforting shock of self surprised. At first the plumber's grief seems simple-inward weeping set off by a breath of perfume from a bathroom cabinet, or the sudden spaciousness of his bed. Then, wallowing in his sadness, Berman turns on everyone who offers comfort. Even his married daughter, who tries to mother him, is stung by his quick, aimless angers, his sullen preference...
...rangy, gangling flitch" who broods away his days in the company of the "fops and fools of the coffeehouses" of 17th century London. What distinguishes him from his fellows is not only his self-imposed celibacy but also a curious kind of virginity of the mind, "a set of the grain as 'twere, that would keep [him] ingenuous even if all the books in all the libraries of Europe were distilled in [his] brain." His name is Ebenezer Cooke, and in this boisterous historical farce he emerges as one of the most diverting heroes to roam the world since...