Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vision is brief, its echo swal lowed by Montana's vast emptiness. But it reveals that the hero's feigned indifference to life is a sham. He inwardly craves all the things to which he has tried to close his heart: love and loyalty, and a purpose that will root him to the land his forebears lost. Near the book's end, he tries to rescue a cow that is in danger of drowning in mud. The task is mock-heroic, emblematic of the best he can expect from existence. But he struggles furiously, engaged...
...Davies's simultaneous portrayal of three different characters, was ingeniously side-stepped. On stage, Davies played the role of Flash, while Mr. Black was perfectly portrayed by a haunting, insidious Davies in a film projected onto the stage screen. The grotesque projection of his image and the resounding echo of his voice gave him the quality of an omni-present big-brother figure. The Tramp, though, was dispensed with entirely, an unfortunate necessity, for while his character is not essential to the story, his part included some of the best songs on the album...
...example, the argument that the Japanese can undercut the American producers with cheap labor is a disturbing echo of the British textile merchants' complaint about the "imitative" Germans. (In both cases modern and productive equipment actually made the difference.) As the British rail and textile industries matured, they searched into the past for the reasons for their success. Instead of recognizing their former readiness to innovate and courage to take risks, they picked up on antiquated management policies and clung to them desperately. The result, of course, was to hasten collapse. The same thing is happening in the auto industry...
Risking Arrest. As if to echo Solzhenitsyn's appeal for a resumption of dialogue among Russian dissidents, an unauthorized press conference was called in Moscow to announce the book. Igor Shafarevich, a world-famous algebraist, told Western newsmen that the aim of the essays was to bring about fundamental changes in the U.S.S.R. Risking arrest, three other dissidents who contributed to the book were willing to be identified: Scientist Mikhail Agursky, Art Historian Yevgeni Barabanov and Historian Vadim Borisov...
...strange echo introduces the final portion of Rochester's life: "In the sixties there had been a time for mirth; now in the seventies was a time for seriousness." Rochester's satires had earned him the reputation of, as he wrote, "a man whom it is the great mode to hate." His two great loves, wine and women, finally turned on him so that by 1677 he was almost blind. In 1680 he died--either of tertiary syphilis or delirium tremens--disgraced for alleged cowardice on the dueling field, and accused of having thugs beat up Dryden, England's poet...