Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karnow considers the Cultural Revolution a culmination of the long conflict between Mao's romantic dream of permanent revolution and the Chinese people's natural drift toward realism. Repeatedly, whenever Mao sensed that the bureaucrats seemed to be taking over, he forced a return to basic revolutionary principles, often at chaotic cost to the country. He skirmished with intellectuals, with army professionals who thought that modern weapons were more important than revolutionary élan, with economic planners who thought the Great Leap Forward to instant industrialization was dangerous nonsense (which...
Thurrow charged that Nixon is "amoral" because he formulated his policies by the drift of public opinion polls, citing the abandonment of the Negative Income Tax plan. "He should lead the public opinion polls rather than follow them. The welfare program needs federalizing," he said...
Choosing for her backdrop the chaotic bustle of New York City Calisher watches her sad little T-group of deserted parents drift from one home to another apartment building to hotel Harlem to Upper East Side doctors office to bedroom endlessly discussing their problems and trying to help one another contact their scattered off spring Only loneliness keeps them together At times tempers flare; class hatred racial prejudices and religious differences contribute to the tense atmosphere. Calisher mocks her characters as "prodigal fathers not received", and dangles them above a generational abyss made up of paradoxes and contradictions based...
...polls have indeed had problems in detecting the drift of such multi-candidate contests as presidential primaries, where voter opinion is much less certain and is affected by more intangibles. But to those who object to having their opinions computerized, the discomforting truth is that the major polls have been astonishingly accurate in predicting presidential elections ever since the miscalculations of the Harry Truman upset of Thomas Dewey in 1948. Since that time, however, the largest discrepancy between the final Gallup reading, for example, and a presidential-election result was the 4.4 points by which Gallup underestimated Dwight Eisenhower...
...THIS POINT, the film threatens to descend into a quaint metaphysical consideration of the relations between art and life, imagination and reality, and so on. But when Rosemonde herself (Bulle Ogier) enters the scene, the drift of the story changes completely. She turns out to be an absolutely intriguing girl with whom Pierre, after his first interview, finds clinical detachment quite impossible. The two soon begin an affair, and Paul--who had determined not to set eyes on Rosemonde in order to preserve the integrity of his imaginary creation--accidentally meets her at Pierre's home and immediately finds further...