Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Vietnamese that now "my preoccupations are your preoccupations; I shall rely on your eyes to see more clearly and your concern to gain a better knowledge." He again offered to hold direct talks with Hanoi to end the war, as he had promised during his campaign. But significantly absent this time was any mention of a bombing pause, perhaps reflecting Washington's growing lack of enthusiasm...
...hideous procedural "free speech" of Naked Lunch style con-men (do I describe the deans as well the Dowists?) recruiting researchers and salesmen for the adhesive medicine that burns whole bodies, families, and countries, and the apophantic, the real, I-thou, perhaps loving communication between brave persons, largely absent in Cambridge, Mass. as in most places I've seen, perhaps therefore a difference unrecognized by those who know one part only, this difference divides administration from a group of students...
...paper is the most interesting in political areas where you would expect it to be a repetition of international weekly perioicals. Its analyses of politicians and their motives, its editorial comments, and its careful chronologies, are strikingly absent in American newspapers. The New York Time's lack of perspective on crucial matters, such as the King's interests, is never so apparent as after reading The Hellenic-American. The paper includes literary reviews and mood articles on Greek scenes, but this writing is generally feeble. The superb editorial page and foreign coverage, provided by correspondents and travelers in Greece...
...country can bury a man with greater pomp and flourish than Britain. Yet all the trappings of power were absent last week at the funeral of Earl Attlee, Britain's Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951: there were no honor guards or artillery caissons, no press or television, no crush of spectators. Only 150 invited friends and relatives gathered in London's historic Temple Church for a brief Anglican ceremony in honor of the man who had shaped the political destiny of postwar Britain. Though his ashes later will be interred in Westminster Abbey, the simple funeral fitted...
...Here is a voice speaking to the experience of thousands," wrote one. Said another: "Reality-deep, significant reality-is the characteristic of this book." Nothing that deeply touched Charlotte -the terrible boarding school where her sisters died, her woes as a governess, the tests of love-is absent from Jane Eyre. If Charlotte's flaw was excessive romanticism, her strength was the ardor with which she recorded her bitter experiences...