Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economically, the Front advocates as did the Nazis, a program for national self-sufficiency. They propose to ban all imported goods, and to grow 75 per cent of Britain's foodstuffs in Britain. Like their Nazi predecessors, they also advocate a state-controlled, monopoly capitalist economy...
...thing is, Flippo is approaching right--we do need a little more Waylon and Willie. Their duet album is amazing, the best country album of the year by a long shot. From the first cut on side one, "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," a tongue-in-cheek hymn to pre-professionalism ("Don't let 'em play guitars and drive them old trucks/Let 'em grow up to be lawyers and doctors and such"), you know this album is going to have some punch and humor. The crazy, whining guitars on "Mamas" come back...
Professor Said is correct when he writes that "to its victims, history often seems to be an accumulation of sufferings and injustices; but it also has a certain compensating logic, a part of which is that people do not disappear under oppression, they sometimes grow..." It takes a man of letters such as Professor Said to write such a moving passage. It moved me because this is the exact story of Zionism and the Jewish Nation...
Michelangelo Antonioni, film director (Blow-Up), on watching his movies on television: "I feel like a father toward my old films. You bring children into the world, then they grow up and go off on their own. From time to time you get together, but it isn't always a pleasure to see them again...
...jokes about bad scholarly prose,6 the subject is not really funny. When citizens who are paid to think do not adequately share those thoughts with others, everyone loses. Scholars grow more isolated and the public more puzzled and hostile to their efforts. Discoveries in some fields, especially in the sciences, will always be too hermetic to become common knowledge overnight. But simple prose could clear up much mis understanding. The task may be impossible; Van Leunen shows how it could be done...