Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This and similarly graphic scenes serve to frame the novel's artfully related subjects: the fiction writer's need to acknowledge the deceitful nature of his craft, and the political activist's need to convince himself that his ideology is the only truth. The tragedy of Alejandro Mayta is that the give-and-take of public affairs is too perplexing for his blind faith. Like the narrator, he cannot escape the comic ironies that respect no certitudes. When free as an Andean condor, Mayta is a dedicated Communist. Imprisoned, he is a revolutionary whose zeal leads to reforming the convicts...
BLACK INTELLECTUALS' continued refusal to discuss the anti-Semitic views of the Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan highlights the fact that Jewish opinions continue to frame the content of debate in the Black community...
...LACK OF Republican resolve offers a rare opportunity to Democrats who are casting about, so far unsuccessfully, for a response to the Reagan Administration. Democrats have generally allowed Republicans to frame the political debate in terms of defense spending, which is very different--and the difference is often lost--from foreign policy. Because Democrats want less spending, they are perceived as isolationists--soft on communism, unwilling to fight the Sandinista threat in Nicaragua...
...works are more relevant to the faculty than students. When we accept admission to Harvard, students agree to abide by the rules. If we cannot operate in accordance with the college's rules, we are asked to leave. Likewise, those professors who cannot perform their duties within the time-frame established by the rules and traditions of the college should be told to seek employment elsewhere. It is time for the Harvard faculty, the "untouchables", to respond. As a matter of fact, it is their obligation to do so. The students should not be bullied into a retreat that will...
Jack's devious efforts to engineer that unlikely event (and stay within the movie's realistic frame) require some fairly desperate contrivances. But they alternate with grace notes, like a dinner at which Jack and Reno attempt to reconcile with their estranged wives while following the Monday-night football game. Williams' portrayal of a man disheveled but not defeated by history is first-class, and so is Russell's as a man chilled by the fear that his legend exceeds the truth. Theirs is a matchup worthy of instant replay...