Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert assassinated, Joseph Jr. killed in World War II, Kathleen dead in a plane crash. Another daughter, Rosemary, is mentally retarded and Joseph Sr., now 80, has been incapacitated for eight years by a stroke. She reserves much of her time for her ailing husband, who is now no longer able to come downstairs...
...came to the point where I could no longer write, no longer sleep, no longer breathe...
...loss of hope: I simply cannot live there any longer. This feeling is something stronger than me. I just can't go on living there. If I were now to find myself again in the Soviet Union, I should go out of my mind. If I were not a writer, I might have been able to bear it. But, since I am a writer, I can't. Writing is the only occupation in the world that seriously appeals to me. When I write, I have the illusion that there is some sort of sense in my life...
...middle sister Masha (the role originally played by Chekhov's own wife), bored with her marriage to a pedant and fated to be separated from the one man she comes to love. For one thing--and it may be ungallant to say so--Miss Reid can no longer pass for a young woman in her midtwenties. Masha is also the most complicated of the three sisters. Miss Reid has no particular trouble conveying the blunt, even coarse speech of Masha, but she has not sufficiently plumbed the poetic sensitivity that lies beneath. It is not a bad performance; it just...
...concedes that opening Japan to foreign businessmen would help considerably to ease inflation. But he and other leaders plead for more time to strengthen companies against aggressive foreign rivals-and time to squeeze the necessary decisions out of the consensus system. Japan's exasperated trading partners are no longer in any mood to grant that time. For instance, Japanese companies do not invest much in research, but instead rely largely on buying foreign technology. U.S. companies, in particular, no longer want only to sell technology. They want in on the Japanese market...