Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making an increased Moslem representation in it of less importance). Parliament is permitted to meet only twice a year and then for only three months at a time. Parliament can pass laws, but only in certain circumscribed areas. No Deputy's vote may be counted if he is absent, and if a Deputy accepts either a Cabinet post or a government position, he must withdraw from Parliament...
Conrad has a pronounced socio-political ideology. It is never absent from the novels, but it is stronger in these three than elsewhere. Guerard, despite "my sympathy with the political vision" of Nostromo seems less interested in ideology than in the other components of novels. This is a great pity much of Conrad's ideology, for that brand of illiberalism is not going to find many commentators sympathetic enough to do it justice...
...granted a charter by the State Committee of the Massachusetts Republican Party last July 16 at what Dawson called "a poorly attended meeting of the State Committee in the middle of the summer, when many HYRC supporters were absent...
...vote was 369 to 8 (all Republicans). Notably missing from the House debate: any mention of Goldfine's friend, White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, whose intercession for Goldfine with federal agencies brought on the year's most dramatic congressional investigation (TIME, June 23 et seq.). Notably absent when the House voted: Massachusetts Democrat John McCormack, the House majority leader, a period piece in Goldfine's political collection...
Saudi Arabia. One man Murphy did not see was Nasser's commander in chief, General Abdel Hakim Amer. General Amer was absent on a flying visit to Saudi Arabia where he dined with King Saud, who six months ago was being blasted by Radio Cairo for having "plotted" the assassination of Nasser. Now the Cairo spokesmen cooed that Amer's visit was aimed at "purifying the Arab horizon...