Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critic Walter Benjamin had no claims on fame and little influence during his lifetime. He committed suicide in September 1940 at the Franco-Spanish border when his exit visa was not accepted and he feared, as a Jew and socialist intellectual, forced repatriation to Germany. His essays were not collected and published until 1955. Thirteen years later they were translated into English and appeared under the title Illuminations. By that time, Benjamin had become a posthumous culture hero of Europe's new left...
...perfect exit line for a man whose voice reaches us so many years after it was stilled...
Author of a new book on the Skokie case, entitled Defending My Enemy, Neier had intended to resign last fall as executive director. After 15 years in the A.C.L.U., he admits, "I'm combat weary." But he postponed his exit a year to see the A.C.L.U. through the Skokie crisis. Internal wrangling, which forced Washington Director Charles Morgan Jr. and Legal Director Melvin Wulf out of the organization, has added to the strain on Neier. So has the revelation that union officials passed along information about its membership to the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the 1950s...
...second, Living Together, is set in the living room; the third takes the characters Round and Round the Garden. Though each play can stand on its own, the trilogy forms an enormous jigsaw puzzle: every time a character leaves the room to go somewhere else in the house, his exit becomes an entrance in one of the other plays. Through Ayckbourn's Rashomon-like device, the audience feels that it learns the whole truth about the people onstage...
...Corporation's upcoming decision, Bok merely smiled a fixed smile and proceeded towards Massachusetts Hall, where more demonstrators blocked his entrance to the building. Smile undisturbed, he strolled across Mass Ave., where a University police car whisked him away over crowds who tried to block the car's exit. "It's just another day in the life of a university president" Bok quipped as the police guard shuffled him through the chanting crowd...