Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem Keats faced was, how to achieve originality in the face of tradition? How does literature use literature? And Keats, believes Bate, "was somehow able, after the age of twenty-two, to confront this dilemma, and to trancend...
Spirit of '73. As president of the Firemen, Gilbert has been simply a preserver of past union gains. In a speech to a Brotherhood convention two weeks ago, he characteristically called upon the members to confront the crisis of '63 with the "spirit of '73." He meant...
...tired of my skin ... I WANT OUT!" Jack, Bessie's driver and boy-friend, comes to this hospital, after being turned away from another, asking someone to help Bessie, knowing she is already dead in the car. The intern and the orderly, defying the nurse, go out to confront the all-too-real agony. The play ends with the cries of all combining into one shriek, which soon dies, because it is not heard...
People are endlessly wondering who will be the new Hemingway, the new Hornung, the new Premier of the Soviet Union. But no one yet has been courageous enough to confront the ultimate question: Who will be the new John Wayne...
...House of Commons this week, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would have to confront criticism from the Laborites, plus some barely suppressed dissent in his own party, of the way in which he handled, or mishandled, the Profumo scandal. In the long run, the Tories faced an even more elusive and insidious threat than parliamentary attacks-the facts in police dossiers and in the private lives of people who personify Conservative rule...