Word: communism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ringold, but the radicalmaturity of Murray Ringold manages to stand intheir place. Pervertedly healthy Roth's MurrayRingold interrogates the past as if he still hadtime to learn from it (He dies two months afterthe story's present). The clearest communicationin I Married a Communist has little to dowith communism or troubled marriages, except inthat they are punching bags for athleticrecollection.Houghton Mifflin...
...Taiwanese government has firmly held itsstance that Taiwan will reunify with China oncethe Republic has ended communism...
...children with particularly good motor and balancing skills-and then, after interviewing the children's parents to see if their body types were conducive to a particular sport, to begin training the children immediately. It's easy to use this fact as a way of showing the failure of communism to recognize personal liberties. But all we have to do is create a market for such performers in America to achieve similar results...
...grade teachers, Lura Atherly. "He questions things, but not with surface questions. He asks extending questions: Why? What if...?" When the class studied the Russian Revolution, Tyler wanted to discuss what would have happened if the Romanovs had escaped: What if they had come back after the fall of communism? His writing also reflects an uncommon mix of the imaginative and the methodical. He prefers to write on deadline: "It feels like a deadline unlocks a chest where all my creativity is locked," he explains...
...Calvino preface is so nuanced that it toorequires an introduction, and Martin McLaughlin,who is responsible for the new translation, ablyprovides it. Calvino substantially re-edited thebook in 1954, toning down the Communism, misogynyand violence of his characters. (It is a littlemisleading to speak of the Communism, misogyny andviolence in this book because the tone of thestory is so far removed from the world of thoseadult concerns. Although Pin frequently describeswomen as "disgusting," this is, more than anythingelse, an eight-year old who thinks all girls havecooties.) Calvino declines to mention this re-editin his lengthy introduction, although McLaughlintoo generously...