Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remained soothed for only a very short time. Within a few minutes of his leaving Weld, Karandas was puffing past University Hall. And there he caught a distinct glimpse of a vacant-faced young man, lurking behind the statue of John Harvard and staring in his direction. "Someone," Karandas' mind registered, "is staring at me. This is aboard. Worse than that, it is not nice. Has he never seen a fat Indian before...
...Hukbalahaps in the Philippines had no friendly sanctuary just over the frontier, and their strength evaporated when the late President Magsaysay fought them economically as well as with guns. In Malaya, the Communist guerrillas had no contiguous border with a Red country and. being mostly Chinese, they were distinct from the Malays, who disliked them on principle. Even so, it took twelve years and 350,000 soldiers, police, and militia for Malaya to wipe out 12,000 isolated Communist guerrillas...
...World cities whose everyday lives are still corseted in tradition. Beside them, the modern American city seems a muscular, lunging, rollicking giant, straining toward new heights and making up his own tradition as he climbs. Yet for all their indiscriminate bustle, the big cities of the U.S. have developed distinct personalities of their own, with much deeper differences than a palm tree or a peep show might suggest. Of them all, five cities, spread from coast to coast and north to south, reflect both the endless variety of metropolitan America and the ties that bind the cities...
...gods of Homer emerge distinct and individual without losing their immortal shimmer. If the gods are sometimes seen as trivial or spoiled human beings, it is because they are not viewed as they were in Homeric times. Homer's original disteners understood the behavior of the gods in a different context of beliefs, and from a different fundamental awareness of the world...
...Annee Derniere poses these questions through ambiguities that involve much more than the obvious problem: did A and X meet last year. The movie at first contains four distinct levels of action, but as time goes on it becomes increasingly difficult to separate them or to know for certain which level is fact and which fabrication. As soon as the titles go on the screen, X's voice is heard describing the walls and gardens of the hotel. This voice continues to be heard sometimes as an undertone, often as the major sound portion of the film. Like the organ...