Word: bentely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent to her publisher, John Blackwood, over a period of 22 years. Her replies to his unwelcome suggestions for changes in her manuscripts amount to a literary credo. When he proposes that she make one of her characters less "abjectly devoted" to an unworthy girl, she answers, "My artistic bent is directed not at all to the presentation of eminently irreproachable characters, but to the presentation of mixed human beings in such a way as to call forth tolerant judgment, pity, and sympathy." Indignantly, she adds, "And I cannot stir a step aside from what I feel to be true...
...again. It comes back and back and back. Charles de Gaulle called Viet Nam "rotten country," and he was right in a psychic as well as a physical sense. Rotten, certainly, for Americans. Viet Nam took America's energy and comparative innocence--a dangerous innocence, perhaps--and bent it around so that the muzzle fired back in the nation's face. The war became America vs. America...
When George Carillo arrived at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose one steamy July day in 1982, he seemed more a mannequin than a man. The 42-year-old heroin addict was bent over and twisted, drooling and unable to speak; almost every muscle was immobilized. No one knew what to make of his condition, so a call went out for Dr. J. William Langston, the hospital's chief neurologist. Langston took one look and was amazed. Carillo's symptoms suggested that he had been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's disease, a nervous...
...militia. Both the party and the militia were founded by the late Sheik Pierre Gemayel, and the Lebanese Forces were formerly led by the late Bashir Gemayel, the son of Pierre and brother of Amin. The challenger was one of the Lebanese Forces commanders, Samir Geagea, 32, who seemed bent not only on taking over the militia but on changing Amin Gemayel's allegedly pro-Syrian policy. Late last week, Geagea and seven other militia commanders formed a collective leadership to direct their attack against the President...
...into Thailand, but then retreated from the border posts relatively quickly. The guerrillas always managed to rebuild their bases during the rainy season, beginning in May. When they did, as many as 100,000 Khmer refugees would flood back over to the Kampuchean side. This year, however, Hanoi seems bent on the elimination of the resistance altogether. With the Vietnamese firmly entrenched close to the frontier, the refugees may have to remain in Thailand, a situation that puts considerable political and financial pressures on the Thais and on United Nations relief organizations as well...