Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kleist's death was his first striking success. The echo of the two shots fired beside the Wannsee shook people out of their lethargy; some obscure instinct told them that this death had meaning, even at a time when human life counted for so little. Today, more than a century and a half later, we have well-nigh forgotten the untold thousands slaughtered in the course of Napoleon's mad struggle for power, while the echo of the shots fired beside the Wannsee still rings in our ears ... But it was not until the hundredth anniversary of Kleist...
...despair of Erofeev's situation. Having somehow missed Petushki altogether, he is hopelessly back in Moscow. The alcoholic haze dissipates, and the Kremlin looms up as a terrifying symbol of reality. At his absurd journey's end he is crucified by four shodowy figures--one of them an unmistakable echo of Stalin...
...sugar industry is severely depressed, and many workers at the mills are on layoff. But Panamanians insist that they will spurn any part of Nicaragua's sugar quota that might be offered to them. As for the Washington-supported military campaign of the contras, many Central Americans echo the concern of one Panamanian banker. Says he: "Honduras is being dragged in, and Costa Rica [where a second group of exiles is talking of infiltrating Nicaragua from the south] could follow. I feel the heat of war crossing our border too. If it does, it's goodbye...
...converses confidentially with the piped-in voice of a psychiatrist, and revisits and rejects his home. Although obviously still confused, he marries and starts his own family. The final image of the play is one of his bending close to his wife and first child, a reformed echo of the opening scene...
...Sandino Airport, the Pope was plunged into national politics. While the sunburned Pontiff stood in the blazing heat for an airport welcoming ceremony, Sandinista junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra delivered a 25-minute greeting, in which he blasted U.S. foreign policy and warned that "the footsteps of interventionist boots echo threateningly in the White House and the Pentagon." He told the Pope that the Nicaraguan people were "martyred and crucified every day, and we demand solidarity with right on our side." Ortega also went out of his way to tell the Pope that "Christian patriots and revolutionaries are an integral...