Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign was even more aggressive. A joint Soviet-Czech communique "emphatically condemned the recent provocative actions of the Chinese splitters, which inflict serious damage on the forces of socialism." Pravda, organ of the Soviet Communist Party, noted that Mao Tse-tung and his clique had revealed "once more the extent of their political degradation," and the Soviet press continued to bare details of the bloody Ussuri River border clash in the Far East, which, the Russians claim, cost the lives of 31 Russian frontier guards...
...victimization of the Jews. Instead, Wiseman focuses on Kazakh's metaphysical obsession with Wirthof, an SS officer with grand passions and grandiose ideas. Though the two are totally disparate in personality and background, Kazakh feels that his own identity has somehow been submerged in Wirthof s (to an extent reversing the situation in Remain Gary's 1968 comic novel, The Dance of Genghis Cohri). Says Kazakh: "Wirthof still glitters in me, on my energy, in my time: that mica glitter of his: that is the source of my exhaustion; if only he would glitter less I would...
...extent that an actor succeeds in feeling like his stage role, he will be convincing on stage. What Cooper has tried to do with his cast in The Bonds of Interest is to get them into character not only through the mind--but through the "center" as well. If an actor can find his center and then make his stage role part of that center, uniting the literary creation with his own gut, he can actually become the character he is trying to create. For the few hours of the play, the transformation will be real. Acting will...
...Boys and of their guiding spirit Brian Wilson. He devotes nearly 50 pages of the book to exploring Brian Wilson's psyche and enthusing over the Beach Boys' music. The net effect is certainly to force one to reconsider all one's opinions about the groups and, to some extent, to lead one to a new respect for their music...
Their nudity was an expression of a desire to be free from the constraints which are imposed to so vast an extent on people's lives by our society--a society that is raising a privileged but not-necessarily-happy few, oppressing many of its members, stifling creativity to a very great degree, and driving itself insanely towards self-destruction and annihilation. I was appalled at how difficult most of the people in the room were finding it to transcend their own persons and the uniqueness of the situation--at how hard it was for them to enter into...