Word: drift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walter Keer, of the Herald Tribune, found it "an anti-feminist demonstration scored for in bugles, toy drums, and kazoos." He thought Kopit "slavishly indebted to his predecessors in the Theatre of the Absurd," but said he "is easily articulate, sometimes graceful even, and the mists that drift by have a way of taking what may be their most natural and frightening bodily shape." Kerr was ecstatic about the performers...
...amid all the violence, the drift to peace continued...
...bewildering and unheroic abdication last August. In the crisis that followed. Brazil's military forced a switch from a presidential to a parliamentary system, designed to block rabble-rousing Veep João ("Jango") Goulart from gaining full executive power as President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor, President Juscelino Kubitschek, to speak...
Although the Office has found that potentially good graduate students drift away because Harvard doesn't satisfy their interests," Barnes pointed out that University is unwilling to follow the of Stanford and the University of Florida by offering a degree in Latin American Studies. Harvard firmly believes that Latin American study is valuable only within a specific discipline, said...
Night falls. Man and wife are restless and preoccupied- easier to go out than to be alone together. They drift off to an all-night brawl at a millionaire's mausoleal residence. "They're all dead here," the wife sighs as they enter the house. Antonioni's point is unmistakable: his hero, like Orpheus, has entered Hades, the contemporary hell of unmeaning materialism- will he find there the love, the soul, the vital core of meaning he has lost? He finds the daughter of the millionaire (Monica Vitti), a dark-haired charmer whom he fiercely pursues, only...