Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year after her marriage has broken up, Diane (Talia Shire) inexplicably finds herself breaking down. She sets forth on a therapeutic cross-country journey in search of her old boyfriends. At first it seems she wants to gain insight into her illness by re-examining past relationships. It turns out, though, that she is more concerned with gaining revenge: the other sex, she feels, has ill-used...
...tremendous national introspection. Such self-inspection may mean a redefinition of national goals--an admittedly difficult task. But as The Washington Post wrote in its April 1 editorial on Three Mile Island, such a reckoning of the "ethics of risk" must be the ultimate destination of the energy journey. If we are lucky. Three Mile Island will have set the process in motion...
...York Bureau Chief Donald Neff, who arrived a day later with Correspondent John Tompkins, it was a troubling journey. "As a child," he explains, "I used to spend my summers in Goldsboro, a small town just across the river from Three Mile Island, and I remember roaming the island in search of Indian arrowheads and swimming from its shores. My mother, sister and other relatives still live in the area. For the first time in years, I was gazing at Three Mile again, sensing now more than just its mystery. For the first time the island, with its cooling towers...
...left to Ralph Ellison to develop the Afro-American in all of his indivisible and invisible wholeness. In the tradition of the classical epic of Western literature, an unnamed protagonist, neither naturalist demigod nor realist picaresque, sets out on a journey on which depends the future of his race or his nation. He sets out to achieve his identity in the most widely accepted tradition of Western literature: the journey. From the Odyssey to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, amidst the background of superhuman danger, virtue came in the struggle of the hero and his triumph over evil forces...
...this quixotic journey, however, Ellison's unnamed protagonist had not yet resolved the paradox of his American identity. Even though he discovers the roots of his identity in Harlem ("I yam what I yam!" he says), at the end of his journey, he still has not yet discovered "the next phase," as he puts it, and so can only...