Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could only be my own companion, day and night, and it was only natural that I should come to know that "Self" of mine. I had never had such a chance before, preoccupied as I had been with work (in the army) and politics, and hurried along by the constant stream of daily life...
...Originally he had proposed to devote a mere ten years of his life to the great work. Had he known what it would cost him, Murray might never have started. Always pressed for money, he had eleven children to support, along with his revolving cast of helpers. He endured constant sniping and professional infighting at the Oxford University Press...
...voted to "freeze" their diplomatic and political relations with Egypt. Sadat reacted icily by making a full diplomatic break with Syria, Iraq, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen. His decision produced a schism as deep as any in the 32-year history of the Arab League. Also, responding to the constant criticism of his initiatives by Moscow, Sadat summarily closed down a number of Soviet consulates and cultural offices. That reduced the Communist presence in Egypt to its lowest level since the days of King Farouk...
...problem in George Hamlin's current production is that the comic scenes, marked by both bravura acting and a careful attention to detail, come to represent "all the world," while the court scenes, marked by all too pregnant pregnant pauses and constant upstaging, represent nothing so much as the players' own simple-minded political maneuvers. Through this serious chink in the production's armor, one can glimpse the basic weakness of the play; in this dramatic as in the political world position triumphs over character...
...long as a lifetime, or as briefly as one miserable, snow-bound winter. McPhee is fascinated by these people. Why did they come? What were they looking for, what were they running from? And what kind of person can survive--literally survive--the isolation, the forty-below winters, the constant and unseen dangers that one incurs every day in the wilderness...