Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows not its own emptiness, the psychology of inexpressible terrors and inexplicable sickness, or as the revenging husband Golaud says, "We cannot see the other side of fate nor the sins of our own." Maeterlinck portrays these largely lifeless souls consumed by irresistible fate with his personal idiom of bare symbolism and rhythm, taking us to the edge of enervation as we begin to feel our own strength and moral consciousness become fluid, then dissolute, and finally desiccated...
Christo's other wrappings are likewise intended to lay bare an abstract truth-or truths-about the object swathed. "We never think of things in abstract terms," he observes, "because we are living persons and we see everything before us." By everything, he means surfaces, and in seeking to separate surface appearance from abstract reality, Christo often produces a work that is literally all package...
...While there has been a serious effort at crop diversification, Cuba continues to stress the production of sugar, which constitutes 85% of its exports. Everywhere in the land, posters call for "los diez millones," the 10 million tons of sugar that Castro wants by 1970, as opposed to a bare 5.2 million tons harvested last year and an alltime high of 7.22 million tons...
...black and white judgements of the seeker-voice which moves through the poems demanding experience. The figures of the cover are aspects of this split soul -- of which part wants rest, and part wants "dancing, gin, and girls." But the real land met in either search is only bare rock or rotting flesh -- "How sour the knowledge the travellers bring away...
Careful reading of the book causes one to question Styron's ideals. For example, Styron continuously points out the excesses of callousness and cruelty practiced by a minority of slave owners. However, I looked in vain for a condemnation of slavery as an institution, or even a bare implication that black people would have been better off as free men than as slaves...