Word: dis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Moscow abruptly informed Premier Kakuei Tanaka that his sched uled visit to the Soviet capital in Au gust would be "inconvenient." What dis turbed the Japanese government was that Moscow at the same time invited a delegation of Japanese Diet members, including the opposition, to visit Moscow - in August...
...body of the book pursues -through every novel, play and story, good, bad or silly, that Maugham ever wrote - Calder's all-purpose insight that Maugham was preoccupied with the escape from bondage. Calder has dis covered, for example, that "examined in their entirety, Maugham's works contain over 300 images concerned with liberty or enslavement...
Solti did not go. In fact, it quickly became clear that he was not quite the ogre his Germanic brusqueness suggested. The musicians soon realized his remarkable talents and total dedication. They fondly began collecting "Solti-isms" that result from his frenzied blend of Hungarian, German and English. Examples: "Dis is it as ve vould never did it." To signify that the chorus was a bit muddy: "Here we have ze svimming." Running up to compliment a stand-in singer on his performance, he cried: "Congratulations, I thought it would be twice...
...long ago, freaks had the power to shock and terrify. Now, be cause they have been too often dis played they are, at best, diversions. As a gathering place for hippogriffs and zombies, as the setting for a novel, Times Square is good for horselaughs...
...course, innocence is never wholly restored. Yet U.S. society can be amazingly resilient and forgetful. It has often shown a healing ability to forget -or, as Mark Twain had it, to "dis-remember"-the sins of the enemy as well as those of the self...