Word: breds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...migrations scarcely suggests a rebirth of rural primitivism, some of those recoiling from the city have settled into rustic and often difficult lives far from urban civilization. The late '60s rural communes persist in Vermont New Hampshire, California, Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere. Many city-bred farmers have discovered that Dwight Eisenhower (scarcely a guru) was right when he remarked that farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield...
Inconsistencies. A photographer for Gamma Photo Agency is on the trail for two weeks; he speaks with the kind of cynicism bred in the anti-war movement and demonstrations against war-engineer Walt Rostow, where Rostow says something like, "I've never seen the effects of napalm but it can't be all that bad," and he (photographer, then student) turns down house lights and starts up a film showing bombs falling on North Vietnam, while Rostow (unaware of screen behind) continues to defend the war. That cynicism creeps back when the Gamma man talks about Reagan who, according...
...chronological progression of the pieces stands as Cabrera Infante's argument against the Castro government. He shows that the history of cruelty and violence on the island has known no beginning or end. Cuba has contributed a number of inventions to warfare and repression. The Spaniards bred slavehunting dogs, "Cuban hounds," that were exported to the United States. Spanish generals invented the system of concentrating a rural population in garrisons and declaring anyone outside them a rebel--a tactic that the United States would employ in Vietnam as its "strategic hamlets" policy. Cuban revolutionaries refined the technique of urban terrorism...
...Millet's Man with a Hoe at the Salon of 1863. And how the Second Empire's fear of the collective poor is distilled in the last six words! Proletarian labor, as a subject for art, was the invention of the 19th century; for that, the country-bred Millet was largely responsible. Other paintings of his met similar critical obloquies: The Gleaners, 1857, "have enormous pretensions-they pose like the three fates of pauperdom." The Sower, 1850, was greeted by one conservative as an insult to the dignity of work: "I regret that M. Millet so calumniates...
...plunked down a five-pound note and demanded drinks at the bar of El Vino, a Fleet Street bistro, they were rebuffed. Righto, said one veteran equal-rights advocate, female novelist Storm Jameson, who fired off a letter to the London Times calling the quartet "damnably undignified and ill bred...