Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play excited audiences who didn't know that musical performers weren't exclusively nocturnal creatures in evening clothes and taps. The conceivers of this Oklahoma! understand just how remarkable it was that a musical addressed itself to the heartland of a growing America, to sunlight, and to countrymen and women whose gerunds didn't always have a final...
...Bread, Hashish and Moonlight" Qabbani attacks the fatalistic attitude reflected in the other poems. He dispels as an illusion the belief the fulfillment in death can substitute for fulfillment in life. As a result he is forced to dismiss his countrymen bitterly and absolutely...
...fighting will probably get worse if the conference fails. Their mood has grown more anxious in the past month. In Salisbury, a Baptist minister intoned on a radio service that "surely these are times not for pale faces or trembling knees." Rhodesian President John Wrathall called on all his countrymen to pray every day for the success of the conference...
...degrees, citations from governments and academies, three National Book Awards (a record), and, last May, a Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt 's Gift. At a brief press conference after the Nobel announcement, Bellow remarked characteristically, "I'm glad to get it. I could live without it." His fellow countrymen appeared more pleased. Not only had the Nobel Committee picked a man whose literary works many Americans have read in the original, its choice had put an international imprimatur on an opinion that more and more U.S. readers and critics have come to share: Saul Bellow is the most accomplished...
...Smith's white countrymen hold him responsible for what is happening to Rhodesia. "There is a widespread feeling," says a local mining executive, "that, in retrospect, UDI was a waste of time, money and lives. If we had settled for a gradual transition eleven years ago and Smith had started to train black successors back then, we would not face such a problem now." But a few hardliners, like Leonard Idensohn, who heads the small, far-right Rhodesia National Party, criticize him for giving in now. "Smith and his 49 traitors in Parliament have sold us down the river," says...