Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Provocation. So far, there is no sign that the recent shooting will be used for similar purposes. But Russians are alarmed by the Tass description of the event as "a provocation." In Communist jargon, that is the term for an anti-Soviet political act that is usually the result of a conspiracy and consequently calls for severe countermeasures...
Both the enormity of the task and the event described occasionally seem too much for him, especially when he pelts the reader with chunks of indigestible statistics-apparently for no other reason than that they were available. Salisbury also spends too much time in scene setting. It isn't until page 307, for example, that he finally announces, "The nine hundred days were beginning...
...SECOND big event of Monday came during the evening session of the boy's group. This was to be the structure of all the days there: small group sessions--usually about three hours long--in the morning and at night, and large group work in the late afternoon...
...went down to the baths. The boy was restless, however, and went back to his room with Paul. He looked at himself in the mirror: his eyes were open very wide; he did look stoned, bewildered, afraid. So he and Paul stayed in their room to witness the final event of that Monday--the boy's second breakdown...
...other event of the morning session was the group's decision to let one of the old women named Jessica fight her way into the circle. It was a traditional game, which they played because Jessica, who had said even less than the boy, suddenly told the group that she felt like an outsider. The group, at June's suggestion, formed a tight circle, standing up, with arms and shoulders and hips locked--and with Jessica on the outside. It was her role to fight...