Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realm of letters, Pushkin and Lermontov were giants in poetry. The novel reached lofty heights with Goncharov, Gogol, Turgenev, and others--and a level unsurpassed in any other country or time with Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy. Some of these wrote for the theatre too, but the chief dramatists were Griboyedov, Ostrovsky, Gorky, and -- above all -- Anton Chekhov...
...stoically must shed restrictive skins of convictions and illusions. Hers is a progress of discarding belief. And since the direction of Martha's growth is never really voluntary, it is not a "quest" at all-it is simply the inevitable path awaiting anyone who has attained for impressive level of self-consciousness and self-awareness. Similarly, if the reader rarely finds Mrs. Lessing's judgments on recent social and intellectual history surprising. I don't think it is because she ever resorts to the hackneyed or the cliched. Rather, we, like Martha, have become supremely conscious of events around...
...Labour Party and those groups to its left, become the novel's initial concern. Yet, for Mrs. Lessing, politics are now something of a dead end. She sardonically delights in unearthing their hidden contradictions that scurry about in the dark like beetles under stones. On a superficial level, there...
...client's educational level is found to be too low to contract him out to a regular school, he is sent to the second set of Win specialist--the Adult Basic Education (ABE) team. Again stressing an individualized program, the team assists the satisfied that he has achieved his objectives, which will support his employment goals...
Coupled with this are the fundamental problems of other rehabilitation efforts, such as their inability to overcome a primary level education in such a short period of training...