Word: absent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of late titles express the process near its conclusion: Imagination Dead Imagine, From An Abandoned Work, Lessness. Beckett tries to present the shape of absent qualities--for they do have shape, as clearly as does the character for zero. The only specifics he allows into his works are those of negation: the grey landscape, bare horizon, the tone of a silence between phrases, the quality of an incompleteness. Imagination is dead--except for the imagination of how it would be without imagination. The late Beckett works grow more and more indeterminate, and the masks of the characters more featureless...
Where the power of elected officials to act on our behalf in holding the state accountable is absent, the system from which they derive their representative authority is transformed into a facade which conceals the diminution of individual liberty...
...they are therefore providing services that other people would not want or need. But despite the rigorous screening processes, far too many people seek out the honors concentrations not because of special interest but because they offer the educational atmosphere of closeness and personal attention so markedly absent almost everywhere else...
Sack never actually denies either the need for or the possibility of free will and individual guilt and responsibility. Instead he slides into the sticky, popular claim that "We are all William Calley." The preposterous implication being that none of us cogs can be guilty of anything. "To absent oneself is the only innocent act," says Sack sententiously, "to accept uncertainty, to trust oneself and to walk quietly out on the great dictator, the incontestable expert, to undo every organization and let every organism turn to the rhythms within." For a man who apparently operates very well within...
Kissinger will be in Oslo on December 10 to receive the Nobel medal and a cash award of about $60,000, but speculators say Le Duc Tho will be absent...