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Word: discern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari-after Khomeini, the second most popular Ayatullah in Iran-gingerly tried to revise Article 5 on legal grounds in order to ensure the sovereignty of the electorate; the Assembly majority ignored the plea. In the country at large, however, Asian and Western diplomats believe they discern more significant pockets of brewing resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Forced March Backward | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...almost as difficult to discern the battle lines of disengagement as it was to determine what, if anything, the three-week war had accomplished. Most of the fighting took place around Lang Son, a provincial capital twelve miles south of Friendship Pass on Highway 1 leading to Hanoi. The Chinese claimed the city's capture during their initial drive; the Vietnamese never conceded it. More likely, the blitzed city belonged to neither. One almost comic-opera theory was that at some point a Chinese unit had rushed in just long enough to hoist a flag, then hurried out again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Windup off a No-Win War | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Taiwan, Teng's trip was presented differently. TV coverage of the visit was dominated by shots of the anti-Teng demonstrators. It was difficult, however, to discern exactly what the crowds were protesting because Teng himself was not shown at all on Taiwan's TV screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Fantastic! Beautiful! | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...girl gets boy. Q.E.D.: the Life Force triumphs again. To this, as a metaphysical dimension, Shaw added a third-act "Don Juan in Hell" sequence, a kind of afterworld dream in which the playwright argues that the Life Force has developed consciousness, and is using man in order to discern purpose and destiny in brute existence: "To be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer." Retorts the Devil: "On the rocks, most likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Girl Gets Boy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...make love to a character called Fortune (a fatalistic composite of minor officers, advisors and soothsayers), but then I'm not sure I understand the (flamboyantly) sensual Enobarbus of this production at all (although on his own terms, Topher Dow plays him quite well). And I can't discern much directorial interpretation of the forces compelling Antony's fall, the ability of lust and indolence to dissolve a man's will--although the magnetic pull of the games of one-upmanship is clear enough. That doesn't mean that Sellars hasn't worked these things out in his own head...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Floating Shakespeare | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

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