Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although she talks about alienation from society and self caused by apartheid, Gordimer scorns an empty, abstract ideal of relevance. "Artists shouldn't talk about apartheid--they have to go deeper," she snorts. The writer can make others feel, and the emotional depth necessary to convey such experience comes from a writer's internal commitment, she says. "Commitment takes over from within--it's the point at which the inner and outer world fuse." Commitment is the process of making moral decisions on grounds frustratingly ambiguous and clouded...
...work for the President of the United States. I would have been disloyal, treasonable or anything you want to call it, if I'd tried any such trick and I certainly did not...I'm being a little bit positive in raising my voice...because I want to convey to you the fact that I mean...
KARL ARMSTRONG's words convey some of The War at Home's power and poignancy. Crisply edited and fairly short, about one hundred minutes, this new documentary outstrips any of the current films on Viet Nam: Coming Home, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter. If you only see one film this year, make it The War at Home...
...hard lesson to convey to a people who rarely read about the balance of power without seeing the adjective "outdated" precede it. It was not one of the least ironies of the period that it was a flawed man, so ungenerous in some of his human impulses, who took the initiative to lead America toward a concept of peace compatible with its new realities and the perils of a nuclear age, and that the foreign leaders who best understood this were Mao and Chou, who openly expressed their preference for Richard Nixon over the wayward representatives of American liberalism...
...mark completely. Once Hanoi had gone public we had no choice except to state our case. I had two objectives. One was to reassure Hanoi that we would stand by the basic agreement, while leaving open the possibility of raising Saigon's suggested changes. The second was to convey to Saigon that we were determined to proceed on our course...