Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Crowe Ransom says that Jarrell wore a "triple crown"-"a pure Pity, an embracing Weltschmerz, and a wry ironic Wit." The pity sometimes seemed absent from his own reviews. Alfred Kazin recalls a sideswipe in which Jarrell wrote that some crypto poet's work had "hidden treasures," but that finding them was "like looking for the gold in sea water." This sort of wit provided the sparkle to his otherwise brackish novel, Pictures from an Institution...
...Committee's H. Rap Brown urged Negroes to "wage guerrilla war on the honkie white man," added: "I love violence." Los Angeles Black Nationalist Ron Karenga remarked at the opening session: "Everybody knows Whitey's a devil. The question is what to do about it." Notably absent were the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, honorary co-chairman of the conference, decided to keep on fishing in Bimini. Conference leaders discouraged delegates from talking to reporters; one white newsman...
Johnson summoned congressional leaders to the White House on Sunday to demand quick passage of the Administration bill still languishing in conference committee. The next day, both houses complied. When Johnson signed the bill into law, photographers were conspicuously absent. Only once before-in 1917-had Congress ordered striking workers back on the job, and the President was not anxious to remind his labor supporters of his role...
...eight captured guerrilla suspects, including a French leftist intellectual named Jules Regis Debray. A close Castro friend, Debray was picked up walking out of an abandoned guerrilla camp three months ago. Since then, he has told half a dozen conflicting stories, some of them implicating Cuba's long-absent revolutionist, Che Guevara, in the Bolivian operation. Last week's version was that Che organized the guerrilla uprising, then left for parts unknown. The Bolivian government's plan to try Debray has raised a storm of protest in France...
This "juvenile hormone" is needed in the early stage of growth, but must be absent later for the insect to metamorphose. If this hormone is artificially forced on the but, it will not reach sexual maturity...