Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the government is clamping down on slackers. This year has been designated "the Year of Productivity." New regulations have been introduced against el vago, the loafer. Cuban men from 17 to 60 who are chronically absent from work face up to two years on state farms. Women, however, are exempt. "Our people would not understand if we treated men and women alike," explains Labor Minister Jorge Risquet. Meanwhile Castro is weeding his Cabinet of those who, as he puts it, "have worn themselves out" in the revolution. Ominously, each change seems to bring more army officers into civilian Ministries...
McCarthy clearly finds in poetry an order and tranquillity absent from the world in which he achieved recognition. His meter, diction and rhetoric are traditional enough, as are his subjects: nature, religion, aging, death, love. They reveal a man with an abiding desire to be isolated, unclocked, unshackled by the limelight. At times this shows directly: "Beyond the coffin confines of telephone booths, my arms stretch to read, in vain." At times it appears obliquely: "Poor fish who knew the sea why did you dare...
...Interior Stewart Udall, then released him to appear in court Jan. 28. "It's just incredible to me that this sort of thing can happen to an American," sputtered Udall. "I want the whole story told in court so that people can see what can happen to an absent-minded individual...
...Americal Division Headquarters banning the term "search and destroy" from the division's official vocabulary and suggesting the use of other phrases that would "give the reader no basis for assuming a lack of compassion on the part of members of this command." Indeed, compassion was not completely absent at My Lai. Immediately after the slaughter, G.I.s found two survivors, little girls. They fed the children and delivered them safely to neighboring Vietnamese...
THROUGHOUT the week of rioting in Poland, the name of Wladyslaw Gomulka was conspicuously absent from the hortatory broadcasts of Radio Warsaw. To students of Communist behavioral psychology, the silent treatment was sure evidence that the remarkable and rebellious compromiser was struggling mightily behind the scenes to save...