Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed the pattern that Lenin advocated. As he saw it, small bands of professional revolutionaries would inspire the masses and lead them in forcibly overthrowing established regimes. This was his hope as he waited in self-imposed exile in Western Europe around the turn of the century. There, amid endless quarrels with rival Socialist exiles, he created his own cadre of disciples who expected revolutions to break out in Europe and then spread throughout the world. Lenin's journal Iskra (The Spark), was printed abroad and smuggled into Russia. "Out of this spark," grandly proclaimed the first issue, "will...
...immorality of the Vietnamese war has become a cliche. Even those opposed to the war no longer go back to the screaming bloody concrete facts of the conflict. How can we emotionally respond to a seemingly endless series of burned villages, burned babies, mass slayings of civilians? We become spiritually calloused, deadened, unable to face another newsclip of a dying soldier squirming in the mud he has reddened with his blood and intestines, or of ten thousand bodies floating down the Mekong River to the sea. The seven men and two women at Catonsville could not forget...
...Swiss Alps.) In such circumstances, nature does not offer Gerald the salvation it provided Birken; the landscape into which Gerald wanders is barren and frigid. He collapses, curls up like a tiny fetus dwarfed by a field of grayish white, his darker footsteps trailing offscreen like an endless umbilical cord. The actual physical setting of Gerald's death is overshadowed by its implications of loneliness and sterility. Compared to the cluttered literalness of most of the film, these few, tentative steps toward approaching a sparser, more abstract method of story-telling are much more suggestive of the grandeur of Lawrence...
...those who oppose the Vietnam war not out of war weariness but because they feel it is fundamentally wrong, the endless cycle of the anti-war movement has led to a mounting frustration and anger. This new mood came to the surface Wednesday, not just in the street fighting of the 3000 people in Harvard Square, but in the poor attendance...
...Guggenheim." After some lean times, six volumes of verse and several short-term teaching stints, he finally settled in 1968 at the University of South Carolina. The money ($26,000) and the instant tenure were right. So was the proximity to his beloved wilderness, "a subject of endless interest and rejoicing to me" and the main source of his poetry and fiction...