Word: absentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Community residents were conspicuously absent. "Doing community outreach is a slow process. This is our first rally ever in Cambridge, and we'll be back for more," Matthews promised...
...final crash, the mob violence unleashed on a cult hero hints at others to be remembered. Maybe the Guru Maharah Ji's rock band will fail. Maybe Werner Erhard will marry Linda Renstadt. And maybe, thinking back on absent friends, "Dad" could have blown it. Jonestown could have gone the other...
...more diffuse, the issues concerning students more complex. Students surprised both administrators and themselves last spring by their ability to focus opposition on corrupt and corrupting economic forces on the other side of the world--but that opposition may prove difficult to sustain. The driving forces of 1969 are absent...
...both to emphasize his transformations and his antipathy towards the Arab world. His impotency over his own life is analogous to Mexico's lack of independence in the international scene. Just as Mexico is "in the grips of the beak of the U.S. and Russia", Maldonado is manipulated by absent foreign officials. Oil, the "hydra head of our passions," forces Mexico, the U.S. and the Arab world to assume different alliances in the same manner that Maldonado constantly readjusts his relations with other characters...
Jackson continued to hustle ("I don't like the connotation of that word--just call me a mover," George said when I brought up the term) and lined up all concerned--Harvard, the boxers from Beantown and the Big Apple, and the Leukemia Society. The only thing noticeably absent was money...