Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that left the note on the door...
...anymore, huh?" I had just noticed the extent to which the old Resistence office had collapsed. The roof beams were strewn about the floor and plaster and panelling from the walls and ceiling had fallen all over. Only one of the couches with half the springs showing was left, and it was upside down. The usually well-lit office had lost most of its fluorescent bulbs. None of the mimeograph equipment or file cabinets was left. The screen door still hung open from the garage door, and that had led me to assume that all the rest was the same...
...YEAR OF THE YOUNG REBELS, by Stephen Spender. Mingling on the barricades with American and European student radicals, the Old Left poet and veteran of Spanish Civil War politics reports humanely on New Left ideals and spirit...
...much can one human being endure? The three previous tragedies-including his near-fatal airplane crash in 1964-are undoubtedly more than many people could gain full recovery from. They surely left a deep impression on him. Perhaps Senator Kennedy was nearer the breaking point during those "unexplained" nine hours than many people realize. That he regained his composure sufficiently to claim responsibility for his actions is certainly to his credit...
...emphasis, in its examination of insanity, The Four-Gated City offers one such vindication. For Lessing, the Coldridge townhouse is an elaborate metaphorical conceit--at its base, in its cellar, it house Linda, Mark's mad wife. In another novel produced during another time, Linda would have probably been left to her solitary fate--most probably, like Septimus in Mrs. Dalloway, Linda would have simply destroyed herself. At best, she could only hope to remain locked up for life, half-mad, in a Gothic tower. But, in this novel, Linda is treated as a prophet as she conducts Martha through...