Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CINEMA 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. A space-age epic by Stanley Kubrick that explores the history and future of man. The technical effects may be the best in history...
...good standing until arrested in Stalin's widespread purges of the mid-1930s. Not long after he was released from a labor camp, after Stalin's death in 1953, his daughter Nina gained posthumous fame in the Soviet Union as Russia's Anne Frank. At the age of 20, she had been executed by the Nazis for her part in a partisan raid, and her diary of the dark days of the German invasion, published in 1962, won wide acclaim. Once rehabilitated, Kosterin spent much of his time criticizing Russian officialdom for its treatment of minority groups...
...dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen-age vice ring patronized by government officials, Salazar had him exiled "indefinitely" to the equatorial island...
...interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even in some twisted way enjoys it. He describes Lombardi as primarily a child psychologist; but perhaps athletes have to become as little children to win championships. For instance, one of the Packers, age 33, finds himself concealing an ice-cream cone behind his back. Excellent attitude. The emotional regression will stand him in good stead on Sunday. Scared of Daddy, he is all the more likely to terrorize the rest of the block...
...existential weight of this experience is obvious. In an age that just lets you do this thing to yourself, you should let it happen