Word: escapee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"Those who resort to civil disobedience such as the petitioners were engaged in ... cannot and should not escape arrest and prosecution. Civil disobedience by 'civil rights workers' in the form of 'going limp' and lying or marching in the streets or upon the sidewalks, or marching...
The key to Indian art, letters and entertainments is escape. India today produces more movies than the U.S. Last year the nation's 4,500 movie theaters drew more than $100 million in box office receipts. Indians crowd the theaters, happily sitting through costume epics of three or more...
The question is a legitimate one and Clark answers it legitimately. "I have to be extraordinarily careful, sure," he admits, "and my peers have every right not to accept shoddy work." But critics fail to realize, Clark feels, the distinction between detachment and objectivity, of which they make a reality...
Contemptuous Enclave. The Finzi-Continis are proud, pretentious, cultivated Jews, living in world-weary isolation behind the walls of their vast estate, which survives like a verdant enclave in the provincial city of Ferrara. Father Ermanno is an aging scholar-gentleman who has passed his life in obscure antiquarian studies...
"Hatred is too much for me," confesses the disturbed American woman who is the heroine of this novel, "I can't face it." She means hatred for her ex-husband, a middle-aged philosopher who is a venerable pooh-bear to everyone else in the world but a dragon...