Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were commonly named after parents and grandparents, and slaves often retained the last name of their former slaveowner to keep alive the sense of black family solidarity. When wholesale shifting of slaves broke up families, blacks tended to create fictive aunt, uncle and cousin relationships to keep the kinship ideal alive...
Spender claims that the conflict between this democratic ideal and the fact of the poet's insignificance and irrelevance in American society leaves him relatively impotent and foiled. "The authorities," he writes, "provide American writers with honor, money, flattery. The one thing they do not do is take their work seriously, because literature is not an influence within the area of public consideration and policy." The poet is left to communicate only with those who already agree...
...life, Spender has pursued an ideal outlined long ago in World Within World. "The writer's life," he wrote, "should be one of entering into external things and then withdrawing himself from them. Without entering in, he lacks experience of the world; and if he cannot withdraw, he is carried away on the impulse of literary politics, success and the literary career...
Free Ports. Driven from Lebanon by civil war, gunrunners are finding Greece's system of free ports ideal for their purposes. For example, goods delivered to the free ports of Salonika or Piraeus for transshipment are placed in sealed warehouses and are not liable to inspection. Some shipments intended for the Palestinians in Lebanon originate in Arab countries. Packed in cases that often identify the contents as fish or an equally harmless commodity, the weapons are shipped in roundabout ways, like from Benghazi to Hamburg to Athens, to avoid interception by Israeli patrol boats. Other weapons come from international...
...come to Harvard. Children write these letters and ask their parents to send them off to the proper address. Last year during Commencement season, a woman accompanying her husband to his tenth class reunion at Harvard became so enamored of the place that she decided the school would be ideal for her child. Marching into the admissions office, she asked for an application for her child...