Word: earthier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor official, but he showed an early talent for firebrand politics?first as a student leader in Tientsin, later as a Communist organizer in France. When he joined the Chinese Communist Party, it was in the hands of educated urban intellectuals like himself. By the time an earthier, peasant-based faction, led by Mao Tse-tung, made its bid for dominance during the Long March in 1935, Chou was already in a pivotal position of power. In the crucial vote Chou swung his support to Mao, and he has backed the winning horses ever since...
...John's favorite arranger, Paul Buckmaster, 24, whose deft classical touches-sweeping strings and poignant little solos by oboe and harp, for example-lend both drama and restraint to John's big beat. The first album is already in Billboard's top 25. Tumbleweed, earthier and more direct, ought to be one of the big hits of 1971. John's first U.S. tour-last week he all but filled the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and two weeks ago jammed Manhattan's Fillmore East four times in two nights-shows off a natural stage presence...
...play is a bit different. Jack and Harry greet each other and talk. Not only that. They meet Kathleen and Mariorie, two lower-class women who are earthier and more honest than the genteel men. It is from the women that we learn that Harry burned down a building, and that Jack followed little girls. Spouting giggles at Harry's unintentional double-entendres and leaning coquettishly on his arm, Kathleen clearly likes the shy, wistful man; perhaps Marjorie, sour and blunt, finds Jack attractive as well. the relationship cannot develop. "Events have their own momentum," Harry says at one point...
...hope appears to balance, blindfold and invisible, upon a shaky raft. Something of that sort, surely, is implied by the accumulation of incidents in Bruegel's Dark Day. But there is realism in it too. That foreground bank of earth, where the peasants work, somehow seems much earthier than any other in world...