Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loss, the scene in which a husband and wife tell of the bomb murder of their 17-month-old son Colin is the most moving and valid testimonial to the insanity of war that I have ever seen. And when the hero of Sorrow and Pity, the bald-headed Grave brother, admits that he knew the informer who sent him to Buchenwald but decided not to revenge himself, I was brought up short: could I have shown the same strength of character...
Motivated by alleged duplication and failure of many Great Society programs, the President has presented a budget which reneges on statatory committments, retreats from programmatic national goals, and leaves the future of Urban American in grave jeopardy...
...elucidate, then drops the subject and the magazine. Who, after all, could explain Gloria Steinem? Ah, but in this roiled world a few bedrocks remain. There it is-the good old Saturday Evening Post. No, it is the good old new old Saturday Evening Post, risen from the grave and swathed in thrift-shop clothing, an item of that rising phenomenon, nostalgia...
...days after the manifesto appeared, 206 well-known French citizens -including four Nobel prizewinners -added their voices to the demand for reform. They issued a "charter" calling for abortion on several grounds, among them poor health, rape, incest and "grave social conditions...
...Guard youth groups, Mao's standard-bearers of the Cultural Revolution, were a grave disappointment. Instead of promoting a new civilization in China, the Red Guards pursued personal goals, and they split into a myriad of factions. Party bureaucrats throughout China took advantage of Red Guard disunion and indecisiveness to organize their own youth contingents which staged battles with the Mao-inspired radicals. Workers, who were jealous of Red Guard privileges, frequently took the opportunity to chastise Mao's "Little Red Generals." As the level of violence rose throughout the country in 1967, Mao called on the army to restore...