Word: imprint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lingering imprint of the past on the present is a theme which haunts David Storey's work. That imprint is evident in the way Storey borrows from his earlier creations in constructing Saville, which uses characters, situations and even dialogue from his play In Celebration. In the play, the three Shaw sons, all upwardly mobile, rejoin their working-class parents for a celebrations which founders on old family conflicts. Saville focuses on a strikingly similar family, exploring the genesis of those conflicts with sensitivity and style...
...Eugene McCarthy I think of symbols, I think of a pathetic Man of La Mancha crusader who holds his head high even while the crowds throw tomatoes. At the same time, I get the feeling, since we are in the age of symbols, that McCarthy will make his imprint on the real world. They tell this story about Norman Thomas, who like McCarthy, spent most of his middle years running for president as the candidate of the Socialist Party. He gave a speech, after declining the Socialist's nomination to be their candidate for what must have been the fifth...
...drive, UNESCO's director-general, the Senegalese classicist and art historian Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, climbed the Acropolis and issued a warning. "After resisting the onslaughts of weather and human assailants for 2,400 years," he cried, "this magnificent monument, on which Ictinus and Phidias left the imprint of their genius, is threatened with destruction as a result of the damage which industrial civilization has increasingly inflicted...
...committed in Iran. I really do not believe most of our countrymen are aware of this or the consequences. Excerpts from the above mentioned Senate report leave an indelible imprint...
Accolades for Kissinger flowed like the heady Beaujolais nouveau that has just arrived in Brussels. Portuguese Foreign Minister Jose Ferreira lauded the Secretary's "indelible imprint on the work of our council." NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns hailed him as "one of the most effective Foreign Ministers of our century" and "a man to whom the adjective 'great' can be applied with sincerity." Belgian Foreign Minister Renaat van Elslande presented Kissinger with a reproduction of a Latin encyclopedia from the year 1120; West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher gave him a 1642 engraving of Kissinger...