Word: known
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodians hate their Vietnamese conquerors, but they live in deathly fear of the Khmer Rouge, who have not abandoned their politics of terror. Though it is not known for sure whether Pol Pot survived his ouster by the Vietnamese last January, he is widely believed to command his guerrilla forces from hideouts in the Cardamom Mountains of southwest Cambodia. Other known areas of Khmer Rouge strength are in the heavily forested northeast and the mountainous west...
...will probably enrich the corporate coffers, but it will never sell the 15 million copies Rumours sold back in 1976. Tusk has not received the fanfare accorded to Fleetwood Mac's two previous albums--maybe because it's not as good, maybe because Fleetwood Mac is by now a known quantity, maybe because they're rapidly becoming passe...
...moral responsibility to like abstract art and a moral duty to defend it. If we don't fulfill these tasks, we are insensitive. Worse, he labels as brain-damaged those who refuse to properly appreciate modern art. Those who condemn abstraction do so, because they require an "already known order, familiar and reassuring." Amazingly, Schapiro calls on a neurologist to verify this "handicap": "The sense of order in the patient is an expression of his impoverishment with respect to an essentially human trait: the capacity for adequate shifting of attitude...
Sampson, a native of Wilmington, Del., earned his B.A. at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., in 1970, and concentrated in Church (now known as Applied Theology) in the Masters of Theological Studies program at the Divinity school. "He was very politically active all the way through," one of Sampson's friends at the Div School, who asked to remain unidentified, said yesterday...
...well-known author and left-wing political activist has charged that Brandeis University rejected his appointment to its faculty this summer because of his leftist politics...