Word: excepts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...willingness of Africa's leaders to confront their parlous economic circumstances has eroded the appeal of Soviet Marxism. Except in Ethiopia, Angola and Mozambique, Moscow's attempts to play on the anticolonialist sentiments of Africans have foundered. For one thing, Africans have discovered that education, customs and trade still tie them more closely to Western Europe. They have also observed that experiments in Marxist socialism have largely been unsuccessful. One of the best examples is resource-rich Ghana, where the four-year-old government of Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 36, now faces an economy teetering on the brink...
...celebration of social roots, Blythe contrasts what he sees as the skittering superficiality of jet-age tourists with the intense thereness of stay-putters like the 19th century poet John Clare, who went mad when he had to leave the village where he was born. Blythe celebrates all nature except the open sea, which "makes us treacherous; it captures our senses and makes us faithless to the land." Poignantly recalling the turreted manors, the moats and the swans of his own East Anglia, Blythe concludes that he and Clare (along with most of the characters of Thomas Hardy and Emily...
Indeed, Blythe comes close to bitterness when he examines the soft focus the English have sometimes cast over nature. Constable, he is not the first to observe, painted "the landscape of every English mind." But the scenes were bereft of humans except for minuscule boatmen or field hands, toiling like ants in the distance. "The poor people are dirty," Constable explained, "and to approach one of the cottages is almost insufferable." Blythe groups Wordsworth with Constable in regarding the English countryside as Eden, polluted by the presence of inferior Eves and Adams. Even William Hazlitt, an essayist with a political...
Here, the seducer savors the girl child: "So much beauty, with no adornments except cotton underclothes ... no scent except the slightly russet fragrance of the hair...
...hole, to see that a half-empty glass is really half full? In a time of uncertainty, it is possible to give the Government the benefit of the doubt, just as any citizen customarily gives the same benefit to himself. After all, as the saying goes, nothing is certain except death and taxes. Or rather depopulation and reve nue enhancement...