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...backpacker, the High Sierra is a state of mind. Cleanswept, devoid of trees, the region contains the range's highest peaks. It would almost seem barren were it not for the glacier basins with their high tundra meadows, tiny wildflowers, deep blue lakes, and foaming cascades...
...consider that our initial response to Mr. Brezhnev's speech was devoid of positive elements. We found the speech extremely interesting. We noted that it had a number of innovative facets. We emphasized that talks between ourselves and the Soviet Union were an inherent aspect of the conduct of our East-West policy. We believe it is in the interest of international stability and the American people to avoid the tendency that we have experienced on occasions in the past to rush to summitry for summitry's sake and to bring about euphoric expectations ... and then to dash...
...goal will be reached," he declared. "Communist society will be built " Thus ended one of the least eventful party congresses in recent Soviet history, a gathering whose importance lay not in what it did but in what it did not do. It approved a new Five-Year Plan virtually devoid of any new approaches for tackling the Soviet Union's deepening economic woes. Unlike most past congresses, it admitted no fresh faces to the party's 14-member ruling Politburo (average age: 70) The congress was above all an affirmation of the status...
...SHORT, THERE'S too much cardboard here, and not enough flesh and blood. A symbol only becomes significant in its power to move masses, but Ward's symbols are devoid of that power. Too often long speeches only rework cliches or lapse into sententiousness. Eager to stress the rift between the revolutionaries and the church, Ward sacrifices the richness of characters and motives to emphasize their polarization...
...center? If, furthermore, equality of opportunity is the equal right to display and develop differences--the equal right to be recognized as unequal--why is the emphasis of separation between different races in cultural terms so frightening to so many? Why is President Bok forced to write a letter devoid of meaningful suggestions when he could put himself on the side of meaningful progress...