Word: engulfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personality, the man himself evokes none of the adulation that characterized, say, the John and Robert Kennedy campaigns, or even the Eugene McCarthy campaign. Even among his own faithful, he comes across as a cool and somewhat distant figure, perhaps a touch pedestrian. No waves of shrieking teen-agers engulf him; his cuff links are always in place when he emerges from a crowd...
...autobiographical novel, the story deals with two Jewish families in Ferrara in the late 1930s, when Fascism was cresting all over Italy. The Finzi-Continis are patricians who live in a spacious estate behind high walls, heedless and ever so slightly disdainful of the tide outside that will inexorably engulf them. The other family, never named, is aware of the political upheaval all about them. But they try only to accommodate their comfortable middle-class life to it, not escape...
...Soviet Union, of course, is indispensable to India. Under the circumstances, we, in communication with the Soviet Union, played a constructive role. The basic point in South Asia was the principle that any nation has a right to its integrity, and that the attempt of its neighbors to engulf it with the support of a superpower from outside will be resisted. That was the principle at stake...
...since gaining independence in 1947 has India faced a more mighty challenge: the threat of a war with Pakistan that could engulf the entire subcontinent. Yet as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made her way across Europe on a six-nation tour that will bring her to Washington this week, she was forced to concede that her countrymen badly need help to rise to this occasion...
...invention. In Born to Win, Passer seems a good deal less sure of himself-perhaps because he is working in America for the first time. He handles his actors well-Segal, Fletcher and Black are all exceptionally effective-but he shows no understanding of the social forces that eventually engulf the characters. The film's final scene is, unhappily, less resolution than stalemate. Worse, it has ceased even to matter which alternative J. will choose...