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...fought their first battle with the regime in 1966, and in the next three years there was widespread fighting across northern Rhodesia. After a several-year lag in the fighting, the liberation troops resumed the offensive, directing their efforts primarily against white farmers and forcing many of them to abandon their farms and move to the cities...
...country, which was written last September in Moscow and recently revised while he was in exile in Switzerland. It has remained unpublished until now. In the letter the Nobel-prizewinning writer lays out his program for the salvation of the Russian people. He appeals to the Kremlin masters to abandon the entire basis of their power: Marxist ideology, industrial development, nuclear supremacy and imperial domination of other nations. At the same time, Solzhenitsyn suggests that the Soviet leaders retain their present "absolute and impregnable power," while entreating them to rule out of love for the people...
...exercise about a middle-aged American millionaire in Europe and his vile, blue-haired wife, whose hobby is collecting titled Europeans. With a witty tenderness, Coward has the amiable golfing millionaire, clad in Hush Puppies and a loud sport jacket, fall in love with a minor Italian princess and abandon his harpy wife. The talk is frequently funny: the husband dismisses one of his wife's friends as being so buck-toothed that she can eat an apple through a tennis racket. But often Coward's celebrated champagne wit amounts to no more than, say, Asti Spumante...
...hate the coyote; we admire and respect him. However, our family operation has just about reached the end of its financial rope in our ability to sustain the ecological balance with the contribution we have made in ewes and lambs to the coyote. We plan to abandon raising sheep and join those who would have them become an endangered species in America...
...century. It had enough in common with surrealism, which it predated by 30 years, to be regarded as its precursor. For though the surrealists took Freud for their patron saint, whereas the symbolists resorted to the cabala and the mystical gobbledygook of the Rosicrucians, both wanted to make painting abandon what Magritte called "that dreary part people would have the real world play." Both were fascinated by dream and ambiguity, the duality of sex and death, perversity and contradiction and mystery. This show makes one realize that surrealism was no revolution but a final knotting-up of the 19th century...