Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marxist, and I tried to convert that into Bolivian nationalism." Though he flew off to London at week's end-the Argentines and the Peruvians had refused him a visa-Arguedas professed a willingness to return to Bolivia and "confront the responsibilities inherent in the deed that I committed." Barrientos at first considered his favorite resort in times of stress: a flight into the hinterlands to talk with the Indian campesinos, who provide much of his popular support. But at week's end he settled down to the task of forming a new Cabinet that would...
...success as a hidden prime mover. The lush blues we identify with Christine and, we realize in retrospect, with the dead Paola, are disrupted by Audran's red dress, then by the blackness of the stocking with which Christine and the other girls are strangled. The violence of the deed is muted by the awesome lushness of the images, textures of decor which make murder a forbidden ritual of the insane. Paul's awakening to the knowledge that he is innocent of murder, and his brilliantly-edited compressed journey through the two houses, shows Chabrol repeating in quick succession...
This is the age of revolution, in word even more than in deed. Scarcely a publication can be picked up that does not issue a call for revolution in something: art or education, politics or sex, work or play. Yet amid the now commonplace advocacy of upheaval are quieter appeals to reason that suggest revolution is not all it is reputed to be, that continuity may be preferable to crisis, that peaceful accommodation with one's fellow man may prove to be more fruitful than clobbering him-or even calling him names...
...counted Martin Luther King as a friend, the grief of these days comes with a special and immediate intensity. For those qualities of buoyancy and openness of dignity and simplicity, that made so compelling from a public platform, were able to move millions of people to belief, to deed and to courage, were hardly less apparent in private moments than in others...
...akin to that of the despised minority who proclaimed faith in the one God against the idolatry of the Roman Empire. To be sure, the Christian burden in the future will be different from that of the past: less to proclaim Jesus by word than to follow him in deed and loving service. It may prove a perilous course, but the opportunity is great: the courage and zeal of that first despised minority changed the history of the world...