Word: containedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glaring Omission. In sheer heft, Khrushchev's proposal easily outweighed Johnson's. Addressed to every nation in the world that has diplomatic relations with Moscow, Nikita's message rambled on for 20 pages about a four-point plan for an international treaty renouncing the use of force...
Snuffling about in the text for historic cross references to support any and all of these theories, the critics stumbled upon all manner of troubling touchstones. The most famous is contained in sonnet 107:
He also seemed to Clark both contained and candid. "Not a single question did he refuse to answer or dodge. Looking back, I suppose I will think of him most often sitting in a plane, hunched in a window seat close to the wing, if possible. I really think he...
"Here You Are, Luv." Tying a rope to his feet, the ship's swimming pool attendant had himself lowered over the side head first, so that he could pull several children through portholes from smoke-filled cabins. Just before going over the side, Susan Redfern opened her pocketbook and...
In In White America, pain is self-contained; in The Trojan Women, grief screams like a woman in childbirth. This Edith Hamilton translation of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion, and such cruel inner hurt that the stoniest playgoer must seek relief...