Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Onstage at the Ex this weekend, Joanne Hochberg, Lois Rosenberg and Francine Figie prove, in three short and beautifully executed pieces, that ballet is no drawing-room accomplishment. This pared-down movement breaks through any porcelain figurines of cliche. There are no imposed theatrics in the performance; costumes are kept to a bare minimum; lights illuminate, not ornament...
...That guy never reads a book. He's a politician. He's...he's..." Silence on the other end of the phone for a moment. "He's Sam Huntington! He's Pat Moynihan!" Now Scheer, who as an Institute of Politics guest at Harvard led the famous demonstration which kept Robert MacNamara captive for hours, is livid. The phone falls. "You don't believe me? Read the interview again. He's a return to the politics of the fifties, the paranoia of the Cold War, enemies everywhere, too much dissent. I know he believes that there's too much dissent...
...choose between quoting nothing of the important drama that paralleled Nixon's disintegration, writing a version attributed to the principals in the episode (whose statements for the record were certain to be self-serving of false), or reconstructing quotes as best they could from anonymous sources, many of whom kept detailed diaries. They made the right decision. And in explaining their methods in full, Woodward and Bernstein alert readers to the nature of the history they have written...
During the Revolution the Charles kept the American troops safe from the British-for a while anyway. Bunker Hill was of strategic importance because it commanded the river, and whoever commanded the river commanded Boston...
...birth myth subliminally inspired by the traumas its author must have suffered as an unwed teen-age mother. Moers also persuasively argues that the gothic novel has its origins in Radcliffe's desire to find a respectably feminine substitute for the male picaresque tradition. The mysterious creaking castles kept her 18th century maidens properly indoors, while providing them with all the alarms and excursions that Smollett's rogues enjoyed. Moer's discussion of Jane Austen and George Eliot as the ying and yang of British class-consciousness is brilliant...