Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since I lived near New York during the Orr Era, a different goal of his is frozen in my mind, rather painfully in fact. Then a Ranger fan (the Islanders didn't exist yet), I was incredibly psyched on the evening of May 11, 1972 for game six of the Cup finals between Boston and New York. Though the Bruins led the series three games to two, the blueshirts had two nights earlier grabbed a tight contest on Boston ice and hopes were high that the New Yorkers could return the series to Beantown in search of their first...
...employ surrealist and experimental techniques. With his emphasis on fantasy and indigenous mythology, and his use of innovations in novelistic form, he attempts to assert his intellectual independence from Western literary traditions. Like his Argentine compatriot, Jorge Borges, Cortazar portrays a reality in which past, present and future exist simultaneously; a world where his characters are trapped in the labyrinth of modern society. Cortazar's two best-known works, the short story "Blow Up" (on which director Antonioni based his film) and the novel Hopscotch, exemplify his search for a new Latin American identity and his pet theme, alienation. Hopscotch...
...most fascinating aspect of all of this is that the conference is real--it does in fact exist and it will take place. Yes, it is not just an idea. In fact, other schools have already demonstrated widespread interest. The University of Pennsylvania has endorsed participation by a ratio of 1586 to 77 in a recent referendum. This represents the largest turnout ever for a vote of this kind at Penn. Brown has raised all of its money and selected all of its delegates. Cornell has over 100 people actively working on the conference. Stanford has nearly as many working...
...highlights on the 11 o'clock news/The revolution will not be right back after a message about a white tornado, white lightning or white people." The lyrics both serve as a warning and a motivation to become involved. As for proof of any sixth sense, that doesn't exist either. In "Madison Avenue," Scott-Heron says "They can sell sand to a man livin' in the desert/They can sell tuna to the chicken of the sea." There's nothing psychic but there is something sensitive in stating the truth...
...limits exist, Fairbank noted, and even if tourism grows immensely Americans still will not be able to wander about the Chinese countryside, because of lack of facilities as well as language difficulties...