Word: fled
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...city. Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother shows two proud, exhausted people as they might have landed at Ellis Island. It was painted, however, from an old snapshot and memory; Gorky's mother died of starvation In Soviet Armenia after the family had fled the Turkish massacre. Gorky remained obsessed by the tragedy all his life. In the years before he hanged himself in 1948, he painted abstract reveries from his past like Garden in Sochi...
...sentences," exemplified in books such as The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, and others; and how splendid that the honor was accorded him in a city (London) which had first repelled him as a raw, Hogarthian place, and more precisely, in a cathedral (Westminster Abbey) from which he had once fled because the crowds emitted an odor that "was not that of incense," and that he eventually came to love both places; and how quite exquisitely appropriate that last week, finally, he was recognized with a marble plaque placed in the floor of Poets' Corner, near where Eliot and Henry...
Such an optimistic view runs counter to those expressed privately in the White House, which hold that the primaries have dangerously divided an already undersubscribed party, in which the conservative element has swollen in influence as moderates have fled the party. The very real fear of a number of Republican professionals is that President Ford, in painting Reagan as an extremist who cannot win, and Reagan, in depicting the President as too weak and indecisive to lead the nation effectively, may both turn out to have been all too persuasive...
Before independence last November, most of the 400,000 or so Portuguese and Angolan whites fled the country. The administrative and technical gap has only partly been filled by a few trained Angolan blacks, the few whites who stayed behind and an influx of Communist helpers (mostly Cubans, Yugoslavs and East Germans). They have helped Luanda to limp along, but nonetheless most restaurants have closed for lack of food and fuel, mountains of uncollected garbage pile up, and street crime is on the increase-more because of desperation than avarice. Almost every day, the government paper Diario de Luanda rages...
...prison with him at the time, Moon received a seven-year sentence because he had contributed to "social disorder": he had been proclaiming the imminent coming of the second Messiah in Korea. When the Chinese pushed the U.N. troops out of North Korea in 1950, Moon fled to the south and later started a church in Seoul. In those days, say early members of the sect, ritual sex characterized the Moon communes. Since Moon was a pure man, sex with him ("blood cleansing") was supposed to purify both body and soul, and marriages of other cultists were in fact invalid...