Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beaulieu's gone...
Meanwhile, in our economic system, Bench is worth everything he can get. High salaries are not ruining the Reds or any team or any sport. Despite reckless expansion not one team in an established league has yet gone broke...
...Pollyanna fadeouts of popular schlock. To counter such charges, Fowles fills Daniel Martin with plenty of reasons for contemporary despair: war, poverty, tyrannies of the body and mind, mankind's apparent inability to do anything about problems except augment them. His hero tries "to discover what had gone wrong, not only with Daniel Martin, but his generation, age, century; the unique selfishness of it, the futility, the ubiquitous addiction to wrong ends...not only a trip to nowhere, but an exorbitant fare...
...steps. He travels to Pennsylvania where a crone named Circe adds to his family history. In the small Virginia town where his grandfather was born, Milkman hears a group of children sing a song that provides the key to his past. The refrain, "Solomon done fly, Solomon done gone/ Solomon cut across the sky, Solomon gone home,"tells the story of an ancestor's mythical escape from slavery. For the reader, the song unlocks the richness of the novel. It is a book in which Morrison achieves her fifth stage- an artistic vision that encompasses both a private...
SINCE THE COUP, the junta has been even more repressive and reactionary than most of the people who originally supported it could have foreseen. Shortly after he took over, Pinochet banned all political activities--to the horror of the centrist Social Democrats who had previously gone along with the army. As more and more stories of mass murder and imprisonment leaked out, the American people learned with horror about the monster their intelligence agency had helped create. The awarding of a Nobel Prize to University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman last fall was roundly condemned: Friedman...