Word: en
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only possible for each individual to express his point of view. No country can impose its views on another. But we believe in what Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai said repeatedly: that from the point of view of global strategy and international politics, even where there was no normalization between China and the U.S., what we are faced with is stark reality. Reality cannot be changed by any person's subjective views...
...have been laid off from factories idled by a lack of raw materials and supplies. Almost $2 billion worth of imports and exports are piling up at British ports because of the union blockades. With no power to curtail the flying pickets, Callaghan has gone so far as to en courage Britons to defy them. "Everyone in this country is entitled to cross a picket line if he disagrees with the arguments put to him," said the Prime Minister last week. "I would not hesitate myself to cross a picket line if I believed it right...
...seem like a larky subject or setting for a musical, but My Old Friends manages to sandwich a wedge of pathos between large slices of jollity. The characters encountered at the Gold en Days, a retirement hotel, are spunky individualists eager to savor the last drops of life. True, there is a lady (Grace Carney) who stays glued to the TV set, but that gives her life the dimension of constant fantasy. True, there is someone who dies (offstage), a tie salesman (Robert Weil), but only after he achieves his desire to leave something behind by completing a bench...
...summer was not nearly that interesting, however. Most of my time was spent picking fruit to the ever-so-slow ticking of my watch. The peasant lifestyle was very different from anything found in America, and especially different from life at Harvard. Intellectualism was worthless in Moras En Valloire--nothing counted except how quickly a person could pick the peaches. It was a hard life, one in which a person spent most of his waking hours working, with few diversions and only the simplest of pleasures...
This time of year, the peasants in Moras En Valloire are busy pruning the fruit trees. The Garcias are probably doing the same. If it is daylight now in France, the family is out in the fields, working hard, just as they did yesterday and just as they will do for all the tomorrows left in them. But while they work, the Garcias smile, laugh, and sing, defying their poverty and sharing with each other the joys of the simple life that is the lot of the peasant...