Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kuan Yew himself, 19 years ago, while in opposition to the colonial Singapore legislature, who lamented, "Repression is like making love--it's always easier the second time. The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course, with constant repetition, you get more and more brazen in the attack and in the scope of the attack." The year before, in 1955, Lee had asked, "If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him when you cannot charge him with any offense against any written law--if that...
...loss of perspective in life, constant curtailment of his personal freedom, spying and harrassment by superiors, informers who followed his 1every step--all this drove Ivan Dejmal to a suicide attempt, in the summer of 1974. The psychological terror had apparently achieved its goal...
...Dylan (It makes a great deal of difference, Ricks said, whether the Thin Main in the ballad is told that he should wear "earphones" or "telephones"-the issue being played with here is whether he should be totally shut off from the world or instead be forced into constant communication with it.) Ricks punctuated his scholarly criticism with exclamations of "Isn't that fantastic!" and "He's just fabulous...
...promised an open presidency. It has indeed been open-and highly mobile. In less than nine months in office he has logged some 50,000 miles outside Washington, visited 28 states and talked to 40 Governors, over a dozen mayors and countless thousands of ordinary citizens. He is given constant exposure; an entire issue of the New York Times Magazine last week was devoted to a minute-by-minute chronicle of the six days that Author John Hersey spent with him in the White House. He was interviewed live for an hour on television by CBS'S Walter Cronkite...
...Constant Motion. Alas, the film makers believe that Wayne's public expects to see him in constant- if irrelevant- motion (most of what goes on here can scarcely be dignified with the term action). They crank up chase sequences that are unoriginal in conception and neglectful of the untapped opportunities London presents for cinematic excitement. Since Director Hickox has no apparent gift for adventure sequences, it may be just as well that he did not undertake situations that would tax his limited ingenuity. But it has been a long time since True Grit, and maybe one of our Bicentennial...