Word: cocoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cocoon...
...army had been sent into the riot zones along the Baltic seacoast with orders to shoot to kill. As cities quieted, dusk-to-dawn curfews were lifted in time for pious Poles to attend Christmas Eve midnight Mass. Air, road and telephone services were restored, breaking the cocoon of isolation that Gomulka had imposed to limit the demonstrations...
...next step for both sides will be indirect negotiations under Gunnar Jarring's supervision. Working inside his customary cocoon of secrecy, the Swedish diplomat last week began sounding out Arab and Israeli U.N. ambassadors in Manhattan about arrangements for the meetings. The Israelis, who are eager to begin face-to-face negotiations as soon as possible, reportedly want to keep the indirect ones close to home (perhaps on Cyprus). The Arabs, who refuse to bargain at the same table with Israel, prefer New York. One possible compromise might be to begin the talks on Cyprus, then move...
...Your Essay fit like a cocoon. Too often I've said: "I'm young enough to understand, but too old to go along...
...Cobb maintains, must somehow come to believe once again that nature has "some claim upon him, some intrinsic right to exist and to prosper." As one path to such a belief, Cobb proposes a kind of ecological asceticism, a stripping away of the cocoon of contemporary affluence that dulls man's sensitivity to the processes and problems of his environment. "We might even be so madly Christian one day," he says, "as to ask to have our salaries cut by 25% so as not to be tempted to acquire material things...