Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seveteen hours a..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
Yevgeni Pasternak rejects suggestions that Litfund's action is an officially inspired attempt to denigrate his father's memory. Indeed in recent years there have been modest efforts to "rehabilitate" Pasternak. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death in 1980, several poems from Doctor Zhivago were printed in the Soviet literary magazine, Novy...
...setting becomes 20th century Florida--specifically 50 miles due east of Orlando, at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral. Orlando is an astronaut, of course; the queen is a high-strung debutante; the prince, an infantry soldier; the shepherdess, a funky beach-bunny; and the magician, a project supervisor at Mission Control...
...page after airy page in which he dilated about the precise textures of clouds. His judgments-notably his passionate conviction that J.W.M. Turner was the best of English painters-hold up well enough. His underlying belief that art should be moral might be expected to seem priggish to a 20th century reader, but in fact does not. There is no trace of stuffiness in the man, and his persistent innocence was of a grand, highhearted sort...
Today is the 20th day of martial law in Poland; the 20th day of the "state of war," as the official proclamations put it. These are so far the only sincere and true words of the military regime. The Polish government is really at war with the Polish people. Because of the communications cut-off the West has to rely mostly on official announcements, specially prepared by Jaruzelski's spokesman. But even those mutilated scraps of news, mixed with deliberate disinformation, can give some idea of the dimensions of the tragedy in Poland...