Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe there is a general attach ment on the Palestinian side to their identity and obviously to their land. I think the plan has a lot of merit. In fact, it was drawn up by Palestinians them selves in the country [Jordan] in which the overwhelming majority of Palestinians live...
Aside from never losing control of an explosive situation, this novel is remarkable for another reason--it successfully manages a literary style that can easily backfire. Kelman tells the story through Nicky's diary: his principal device is the explanatory aphorism drawn from an observation, which, if not handled well, can sound like a annoyingly modern version of Aesop's Fables. Kelman, however, is always in control of this mode of expression; his pithyisms rarely miss with flashes of insight about the way people act and think and structure the world. Nicky, reflecting after Bruce's death, for example, remarks...
...Ackerman Committee in a report which also proposed that a standing Faculty committee offer credit courses in the arts. This latter proposal, which could undermine the autonomy of such facilities as the Loeb Drama Center, is currently under debate in the Faculty Council, and Mayman has already been drawn into the crossfire...
...refusal to work for the land barons, which leads to a moral decision to work against them. What's fascinating is Hawks's dissociation from his contemporary environment. El Dorado, simple to the point of mindlessness, was made in 1967, after Blow Up, a film of remarkable complexity, but drawn along the same lines of moral involvement on the part of the individual, and reflecting the incipient cynicism of the decade's end a good three years early...
...City, Ariz., has drawn 28,000 residents (average age: 67) to a tract 16 miles northwest of Phoenix. It has enough athletic and recreation facilities to train an Olympic team: seven golf courses, four tennis courts, six lawn-bowling greens, a 16-lane bowling alley, Arizona's first indoor, air-conditioned shuffleboard courts, two artificial lakes and a 7,500-seat amphitheater for plays and concerts...