Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disagree." That was the problem of Cuba's involvement in the Angolan civil war. The Prime Minister had been sharply criticized back home for going to Cuba at a time when Castro was intervening in Africa-even though the trip had been planned for several months. In answer to his critics, the Prime Minister twice told Castro that Canada did not believe in foreign intervention, specifically in Angola. Nonetheless, the two leaders were careful to prevent the issue from souring the diplomatic mood. Said Trudeau: "It was obvious to me that Premier Castro had made his decision [to intervene...
Edmund Blunden, a poet, elaborates a Syndrome theme when he recalls the endlessness of war in that attack on the Somme. "By the end of the day," he writes, "both sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken earth and murdered men, the answer to the question. No road. No thoroughfare. Neither race had won, nor could win, the War. The war had won, and would go on winning." And after carefully building up evidence for the recurrence of this theme since that time, Fussell quotes this headline from The New York Times: "U.S. Aides in Vietnam/See an Unending...
...dead center of his book, Fussell considers the phenomenon that bears on this question and his literary approach, what he calls the problem of "the collision between events and the language available." And his own answer seems less than adequate. "There's no reason why a language devised by man should be inadequate to describe any of man's works. The difficulty was in admitting that the war had been made by men and was being continued ad infinitum by them." Fussell rejects Louis Simpson's theory that infantry soldiers so seldom render their experiences in language because "language seems...
...Board has lately been undershooting Burns' own target of a 5% to 7.5% annual rate of increase; the nation's money supply has grown at an annual rate of only 2.7% in the past three months. The CEA report asks: Will money-supply growth be appropriate? Its answer: Yes. But that yes is based on Burns' target, not on actual performance, and some economists at the CEA are afraid that the Federal Reserve will not produce on schedule. That and the possibility of a wage explosion resulting from 1976's major round of labor-contract negotiations...
...that, all antic hell breaks loose. Instant magic occurs: appearances and disappearances, deaths, resurrections, changes of identity, autokinetic kitchen utensils and finally Joan's celestial levitation. Director Marshall W. Mason moves all the UFOs and the splendid cast at a rocketing pace. The words are manic-puns, syllogisms, answer-and-question games, in that order. Some scenes are animated versions of Feiffer's cartoon strips. Basically one-line throwaways, they lack dramatic continuity, but they sputter with hilarity...