Word: deale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Didi and Gogo a fundamental lack of human resonance, Chytilova's purpose has little in common with Beckett's lofty pursuit of silence. Rather Daisies is a meditation on the personal and social consequences of conspicuous consumption. Consumption is here equated with destruction (a fundamentally schizoid position--unable to deal with the world, the schizoid individual incorporates it, destroying for him the significance of the outer world and replacing it with a libidinalized inner universe); the Mary's greedy voracity ("I love to eat," says one), stemming from their schizoid positions, fragments their already fragmented lives, and finally destroys them...
...years of brokering alliance between trade unions, minority groups, and the South had failed and that drastic changes were needed to enable the political system to cope with current crises. The political ethic underlying the specific changes proposed runs roughly like this: The political system should seek to deal directly with the issues of the time, instead of being a battleground for various faction. "Participation" in the political system by all the people is essential, for it assures that the system will operate in the above fashion...
When pressed about their seeming lack of results for New Politicians customarily reply that forsaking their principles and delving into pragmatic alliance building will only lead them into the trap which the Democratic Party has rested in since the New Deal. Time is, they say, required for development of the New Politics...
Over a Barrel. Many of the big contracts have been signed by employers who either felt no pressure to keep prices down, or had no choice in a labor-short economy. Construction unions, which often have more strength than the localized employers they deal with, are leading the way, but many another union is delighted to exercise some un accustomed economic muscle. Seattle hotel and restaurant employees won their increases after a 12-day strike that was settled just as the first of 100,000 Shriners arrived in the city for a convention...
Shaplen's tour d'horizon includes essays on Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Viet Nam and Cambodia. Its most compelling section explores Indonesia. In a fascinating flashback that offers a good deal of new material, Shaplen re-examines the abortive Communist coup of 1965, emphasizing the probability that President Sukarno himself was involved in the takeover attempt. Despite the bloodbath that followed and the interior problems left by the Sukarno era, Shaplen sees Indonesia, the world's fifth-largest nation (pop. 113 million), as holding the "key to the region's future...