Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The best index of the conflict's new phase is the casualty rates. The allies have been killing more of the enemy-55,000 since Tet-but they have also been losing more of their own men in the skirmishes that mark the harsher new character of the war...
Hungarian Party Theoretician Zoltan Komocsin warned that events in Czechoslovakia have "an anarchistic character," but the biggest storm broke last week when East German Party Ideologist Kurt Hager accused Dubček and his men of "filling the West with the hope that Czechoslovakia will be pulled into the maelstrom...
Biting Satire. These days, Czechoslovakia's writers specialize in biting satire on Communist bureaucracy. Their work is in the tradition of Kafka and Karel Capek, whose play R.U.R. first introduced the concept of a robot. In The Memorandum, a popular play by Vaclav Havel, the main character gets an...
Pavese feared impotence, was never happy in love, and failed for the last time with a young U.S. movie actress. In his suicide note he wrote: "Don't gossip." But of course everyone did-and not, perhaps, simply about the unsuccessful love affair. For Pavese's complex character...
Robert is certainly a man driven by whim, the archetypal French man-of-the-world, and most of his character is lack of character. In the end, he discovers the character he has been hiding, and can no longer live with his counterpart Candice. She is the perfect Frenchman's...