Word: containment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two fresh graves at St. Augustine's; they contain the bodies of victims of an army-guerrilla Shootout at the edge of the mission. Many neighboring white farmers have abruptly abandoned their properties. Nonetheless, Father Prosser is not only keeping St. Augustine's open but is even expanding with a $200,000 program designed to double pre-university enrollment. The need is there, he explains: "No matter what happens in the future, school buildings are going to be very necessary for whatever government comes." He admits that he does not know how much longer St. Augustine...
Independent oil brokers in Scotland, who claimed to have received reports directly from the rigs, said that the field could contain as much as 13 billion bbl., nearly as much as Alaska's North Slope. By comparison, Britain's North Sea fields are thought to contain anywhere from 19 billion to 30 billion...
...addition to residential housing, the buildings also contain the Belgian Fudge ice cream store, Yenching, a Chinese restaurant, and the Harvard Bookstore...
Except for a handful of items like the scene from the ballet, The Red Detachment of Women, the material presented is not heavy on ideology, though if the program notes are to be believed, some of the song lyrics contain clunkers like "When you drink tea from our Red base you will never forget our revolutionary tradition." But that sort of material cannot possibly offend anyone. Even if one could understand the language, the comical effect of the lines could easily be regarded as counterrevolutionary...
...Naples as well as Berlin, cities whose textures and pungencies he focused with astonishing force in his writings. Thirsty for experience, Benjamin became a passionate stroller-observer who conveyed the impression that the streets bent to meet his oncoming perceptions. His pieces about Europe's great cosmopolitan centers contain the best writing in this translation of Reflections. The book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions...