Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith 10. My Life in Court, Nizer...
...competent. Many are extremely good, and a few are great. What makes the difference? "To be great." says the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Donald B. Effler. "a surgeon must have a fierce determination to be the leader in his field. He must have a driving ego, a hunger beyond money. He must have a passion for perfectionism. He is like the actor who wants his name in lights...
Instead, modern revolutions are sidetracked and destroyed, as the French Revolution was, while trying to alleviate the immediate burden of poverty. Faced with populations living in hunger and despair, their leaders decide that the solution of the social problem is more urgent than the constitution of freedom...
...GREAT HUNGER (510 pp.)-Cecil Woodham-Smith-Harper...
...Kincaid draws the strip between trips to the washing machine and feeding her three children. Editors fault her draftsmanship but marvel at the apparent hunger for a comic strip that totally shuns English. In Toledo, where grade school French is mandatory, the Blade bought the strip after it discovered that 16,321 third-to sixth-graders were toiling at the tongue. A Toledo school official says that "most of our teachers are using the strip in one way or another." Cartoonist Kincaid now hopes to launch a strip in Spanish, based on The Barber of Seville. She draws...