Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should not be totally mesmerized by the Japanese," said Sir Reay Geddes. "They are not gods and they have their weaknesses. If their industries lose sales beyond a certain point, they could very quickly disclose severe weaknesses." Furthermore, said Sir Reay, a turndown in economic growth could create grave social and political unrest in Japan...
...thoughts raced back to the time when my Secret Police interrogator told me: "We don't have any reason to dig your grave here in the German Democratic Republic." He walked behind me and ran his finger dagger-style along the nape of my neck--"unless you force us to," he added. So maybe this was it. It looked as though the Secret Police was going all the way; so all the carefully devised plans Jack and I had made seemed to be headed towards death. We had only planned bread and water strikes (alarm stage one), unless put into...
...about U.S. international trade and monetary goals. Connally summed up his position: "All I want is a fair advantage." He is a bad loser. Says one Texas politician who has been up against him: "He is totally unforgiving of his political enemies. He'll carry his grudges to the grave. He can also be tenacious as hell, clawing and pushing his way past any obstacle." Connally is no less ambitious than Johnson and he has the same sure instinct for what people want and what they will give...
...sounds. He is a Chaplinesque waif who collects other waifs: an English sheep dog named Arnold that seems to be on tranquilizers; an old ham actor who may or may not have toured with Eugene O'Neill's father in The Count of Monte Cristo; a grave-eyed, peach-complexioned girl (Kathleen Dabney) who is wrestling with a cello case full of shoplifted goodies when Tommy meets her in a Bloomingdale's ladies' room. The play is episodic, rather like an urban picaresque novel. Some of the encounters and adventures are wildly hilarious; others are mutely...
Bonfire and Buddha. The Morris prose style modulates effortlessly between a deadpan Mark Twainish narrative of bizarre situations-Tom Sawyer as Easy Rider-and a grave Hawthornesque moral allegory. In the end there is a great fire, and symbols shoot all over the big Nebraska sky. Hence the title of the book, which comes from the Buddha, courtesy of T.S. Eliot. The original Fire Sermon, preached 2,500 years ago, consigned all the physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away...