Word: greated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political sense and enlightened liberal conscience; he despised extremism, ridiculed narrow nationalism, welcomed a multiracial Commonwealth as a natural part of the Third World's emergence, which he foresaw long before it became a reality. Significantly, Mountbatten was an important influence in the careful royal upbringing of his great-nephew, Prince Charles. Said the future King recently: "Uncle Dickie is a person I admire almost more than anyone else...
...Tyre, once a lovely city of 60,000 people, with magnificent ruins dating back to the days of Alexander the Great, many homes and other buildings have been hammered into rubble by the Israeli attacks. Quite obviously these structures had no military significance. One can imagine an occasional mistake in wartime; but not when at least 100 civilian homes are destroyed in 24 hours, as happened last weekend. The bombs even hit a hospital to which 70 casualties of the bombings had already been brought. Of those 70 people, not one was a soldier...
...land. Ten years later, as a federal lawman in Johnson County, he sides against his own class in the growing war between landed gentry and immigrant farmers. His story incorporates themes of love, class struggle and war. Says Kris Kristofferson, who plays Averill: "The movie ends where The Great Gatsby begins...
According to the cabbies of American fiction, Philip Roth has a great glove but can't hit the long ball. The fans will always yearn for the big shot that resounds with bulging affirmations and conventional wisdom. Roth even parodied this expectation in The Great American Novel (1973), a 400-page indulgence of his gifts for lampoon and mimicry...
...overheard, my shame at the unpardonable breach of his trust, my relief at having escaped undiscovered-all that turned out to be nothing, really, beside the frustration I soon began to feel over the thinness of my imagination and what that promised for the future. Dad-da, Florence, the great Durante; her babyishness and desire, his mad, heroic restraint-Oh, if only I could have imagined the scene I'd overheard! If only I could invent as presumptuously as real life! If one day I could just approach the originality and excitement of what actually goes...