Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The poet and the anthologist corresponded for 46 years. Frost, a man who could not write a note for the milk man without giving it his own distinctive twist, writes over the long years of recurring tragedy in his own family, his endless gripes with little worlds of editors, politicians and educators, his deep distrust of liberalism, and his fierce judgment of his fellow writers...
...campaign seems to be having at least some small effect. In Cuba's mis-planned economy, rationing is still severe if not quite at subsistence level. The distribution system is endless chaos -one week an avalanche of avocados, the next week none. But now Cuban officials freely admit having made serious errors, cite poor organization of state farms and premature efforts to industrialize. They talk endlessly of the peasants' and workers' grievances, always promising to give them more-just as Khrushchev does in Moscow...
...regime is the squandered reserves of good will among millions of Chinese who had been impressed by the Communists' display of strength, incorruptibility and iron discipline. More than by physical labor, the Chinese have been worn out by mass brainwashing sessions, public-accusation meetings, collective confessions, and endless "struggle" conferences in which relays of Reds upbraid backsliders. As a result, harried citizens develop what one expert calls "double selves, an outer, superficial self that conforms to Communist demands, and an inner, moral self that remains hidden...
...cylinders, spheres and cones in still life-guitars, jugs, cigarette packages, knives and newspapers -and he projected his internal emotions into this world of objects. He painted few human figures, confessed that he found the human form ugly. While his comrade in Cubism, Picasso, was sensual, Spanish, and an endless innovator, Braque was rational, French, and restrained. As Braque explained in 1917: "The senses deform, the mind forms. Reality grows out of contained emotion. I like the rule that corrects the emotion." But from his penchant for paradox, he added, "I love the emotion that corrects the rule...
...pure state machismo is linked with valor, courage, honor and dignity, but too often it is more gun-toting brag than performance. Machos insist that the women they marry be virgins, and they will defend the honor of their sisters to the death-all of which makes their endless tales of conquest a statistical impossibility. In industry, machismo makes business a one-man show; a boss makes decisions, wrong or right, almost in spite of his advisers. Internationally it can raise a Latin negotiator to his full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even though his country must...