Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...passes for ten touchdowns this season, Hill was the leading scorer in the Western Athletic Conference. Wright, as they say, "is one of those guys who smell the goal line." In three seasons, despite the fact that Houston is primarily a running team, he scored 34 touchdowns to set a new N.C.A.A. record for receivers. Says one scout: "He can judge the deep ball, can sense where the defender is and can make the big, game-turning play." As for running after the catch, one teammate says: "They ought to give Elmo a red light and a siren when...
Change in Psychology. Most of 1970's economic headaches, however, were caused by the deliberate action of Government. In its belated battle to control inflation, the Federal Reserve Board had set its monetary dial at "full stop" in mid-1969. Between then and February of this year, the board squeezed the nation's money supply so severely that it rose at an annual rate of only .2%. The effect was to throttle bank lending, drive interest rates to their highest level since the Civil War, and ultimately to slow down business in general...
...forlorn, ill-fed Dickens who lodged alone during the blacking-factory days was the original of all the young innocents set wandering in his books-the Oliver Twists and David Copperfields and Pips. Through them, his evocations of childhood and the child's point of view are still unmatched for sympathy and immediacy, as well as for their perceptive mixture of terror and delight...
English reporting has always been hospitable to murder, and Altick, who is a professor of literature at Ohio State University, has done his homework well. The indoor doing-in record was set by Surgeon William Palmer, who got away with no fewer than six and very possibly as many as 14 murders. He overextended himself with the deaths of his wife and brother shortly after he had procured insurance policies on them in his favor...
...also is fascinating that, in an essentially repressed society, murder and violence seem to have occurred about as frequently as they do now in the "liberated" freewheeling modern world. Indeed, when set against Altick's grisly social canvas the current scene seems almost heartening. Unfortunately, the book is afflicted with the compulsive attention to micro-detail that distinguishes scholarly research from literary communication...