Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assured Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 84, a fifth six-year term as President of the Republic of China, i.e., the Nationalist government of Taiwan. The Gimo was the only candidate, and he received all but eight of the f,316 ballots cast in the National Assembly (the others were left blank or deliberately mismarked). The vote, however, demonstrated the urgency of the regime's plan to hold new popular elections for the Assembly-the first since before Chiang and his 2,000,000 Nationalist followers fled to Taiwan...
...suspicion that he was reliving old myths, that his life and all lives are caught up in great cycles of history. Even if he could understand those cycles, he felt both guided and doomed by them. That theme runs strongly through much of his poetry, particularly in the three blank verse plays which open at the Ex' tonight. Written over a period of thirty-five years, they each present a different way of looking at a hero, in three stages of his life. The particular hero is the warrior Cuchulain, whose life and character Yeats drew from Irish legend...
...might remember him as a stereotypical young Englishman, latent homosexuality personified, Oxford-accented to perfection, in several of his other roles. Or as another one of those striking Zeffirelli faces in that director's visually stunning renditions of Shakespeare. For most Americans he seems to drew a blank. Who was I to react to enthusiastically...
...Samuel Blank, Dept. of Mathematics, Northeastern University...
...told Kaufman essentially the same thing as I told you," Connelly added. "I would just as soon see a plain blank wall on that (the tenants') side of the garage...