Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Novelist James Welch, 34, neatly juggles despair and hope; the book's sur faces convey both a sad seediness and a tumbledown vitality. Himself an Indian (Blackfoot and Gros Ventre), Welch lives on a 40-acre farm outside Missoula, Mont., where he is now at work on a second novel. Whites, he feels, tend to be too sympathetic or too harsh when they write about Indians. "We don't have those obstacles. To us, being an In dian is home." With remarkable force, Winter in the Blood brings its experiences home to others. Its prose...
...swinger, they believe in the changes they see and feel, however facile and temporary they may be. For the first time in years, Bergman is dealing with the specifics of modern society. When love breaks down the modern institutions are the primary cause; the incorporeal concerns Bergman can usually convey are absent. So this film brings forward no sense of awe. The spiritual sense is cut out from underneath--what's left are the rocky, excessive emotions bred by the petty, inchoate sexual relations of a sexually and politically unequal society. Bergman has never isolated these passions before...
...Shaw does have the ability to convey an incredible depth of emotion at his life's critical junctures, enough to make all the ordinary daily events seems part of a vast, profound pattern. His life comes across as an even progression, unembellished but full of meaning, because he describes it in such a simple, deeply felt...
...American Friends Service Committee report on the Blue Sky sweatshop as well as congressional hearings convey a very different picture...
...press. Such scrutiny is partly due to the inaccessibility of foreign leaders. And, as Correspondent Gavin Scott, who talked with President Francisco da Costa Gomes for World's story on Portugal notes: "No national leader chats with journalists for desultory and innocuous reasons. All have a message to convey, and often they see TIME as their vehicle...