Word: idee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amen-ide-ra and his woman Jora led four thousand desert tribesman in a successful revolt against a decadent, evil regime of Sheik lords. These two were essentially vagabonds of unusual wisdom. Their reign marked a golden era lost to historians. Eventually, Amen-ide-ra yielded to the call of the sands and, taking his sword and horse, rode into the sunrise. Jora and Amen saluted each other as one vagabond to another. Jora stayed to rule...
Brown (2-1) prevailed over a surprisingly stubborn Penn (0-3) ide, 24-18, in Philadelphia. Field general Larry Carbone engineered a revved-up Bruin offense which produced nearly 500 yards. Fullback Marty Moran plunged over for the clinching touchdown...
...hyperactive Brzezinski (often called "Zbig") argues that "the U.S. has to be identified with some positive ide al. In the beginning, we stood for liberty, even before we implemented liberty in our own society. Similarly, today, the identification of the U.S. with some thing more than just consumption is essential to our own wellbeing, to our own psychic stability and to the American role in the world. But we shouldn't be strident. Our policy should be more an affirmation than a blunt or sharp instrument of political warfare...
Then they started, a hundred thousand strong, to sing the songs of Mikis Theodorakis. Beaming and exuberant as he led the singing, the once exiled composer said, "The people have won. We have proved once more that we are stronger. They have tanks. We have ide als and songs." There were calls for se vere punishment of the arrested leaders of the junta, and countless banners proclaiming CIA AND NATO-BETRAYERS...
Perhaps it has something to do with that old Southern blend of agrarian ide alism and the-18th century romance with the noble savage. Or maybe it is just all that ambling through the tall grass. In any case, Southern writers have had a particular weakness for seeing beauty and naked truth through the eye of the innocent. Robert Early, 34, a North Carolinian and former Benedic tine monk, uses the other senses as well...