Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writes most of her own songs, filling pads of paper with words. Sometimes a fragment bursts into several paragraphs. When that happens, Phoebe hums a tune and sets it to music. Most of her early compositions are sad, reflecting disappointment in herself, especially with her looks...
...science seemed especially dismal to Karl Marx, who damned capitalism as an inhuman system in which "all that is holy is profaned." He charged that it tended to "mutilate the laborer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of appendage of a machine." In The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Frederick Engels conceded that capitalism "has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." Nonetheless, Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself: "Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation...
...hospital set up in the basketball stadium in what was once Sihanouk's Olympic City. Most of the wounded arrived with their wives and sometimes their children. A whole family often cowered silently in a corner of the operating room while surgeons cut a jagged 82-mm. mortar fragment from a soldier's chest...
...proposals have the private approval of the State Department but not of the USIA'S current chief, James Keogh, who argues that the changes would "fragment" USIA activities. Congress will not discuss the recommendations until after Easter, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee starts hearings on the USIA budget...
This new version of Sanditon offers one solution. The original fragment has been completed by "Another Lady,"* her anonymity coyly echoing the signature ("by a lady") on Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility. Austen, this Other Lady suggests, might have chosen to follow Charlotte Heywood, a shrewd country girl on a visit to Sanditon. Charlotte falls in love with a fellow from London named Sidney Parker and, after a minuet of polite rivalries, surreptitious coach journeys and misdirected letters, happily snares and is snared by him. In other words, most of the complexity, satire and social implications suggested...