Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not to say that Old Times is undramatic. Pinter's, and his characters', absorption with words may supersede movement to a great extent, but the ebb and flow of psychic combat are clearly and forcefully embodied in the interaction. Psychological climaxes are not merely talked about--they take place before...
...most insightful, informative section of Love-Hate Relations is a section entitled "Ebb Tide in England," covering English poets and the war. Spender sees World War I as a major turning point in the shifting of "the immense advantage." Americans and English alike experienced a loss of faith in the old world. Strangely enough, the American attitude towards Europe in the post-war period seems to have been strongly influenced by a detached, outsider's view of the fighting, seen through ambulance windshields by drivers like E. E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Dashiell Hammett and Malcolm Cowley...
Members of Harvard's two largest left-wing student groups do not like to be asked what they would have done during the Harvard strike of 1969. Although they acknowledge that student activism is now at an ebb, they do not like to be portrayed as radicals who are looking back over their shoulders at a period that was more felicitous to the "struggle." All of them would just as well work on the problems they consider to be important...
Different invasions weathered and eroded it, piling monument upon monument. The contentions of monarchs and empires have stained it with blood, have wearied and refreshed its landscape repeatedly with mosques and cathedrals and fortresses. In the ebb and flow of histories and cultures it has time and time again been a flash-point where Aryan and Semite, Christian and Moslem met in a death embrace...
Unfortunately, Ivan Illich's latest work has been published during such an ebb of American public interest in energy and its relation to food. But, in view of the massive famine this nation will soon witness in living color, Illich's book could not be more timely. He contends that high energy consumption in a world of limited resources necessarily decreases equity and degrades social relations on a global scale. The book is a devastating attack on the developed countries' heedless and gluttonous abuse of the world's energy supplies and a primer for undeveloped nations with similarly reckless ambitions...