Word: loomfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have just begun to resist these attacks on the quality of their education, as in the strike at Brown last year. But as this professionalization of the educational system progresses nationally, the need for a dynamic oppositional movement will become greater, and the example of the French students will loom larger...
...sequences in which Pakula exercises his special gift for suggesting menace through indirect visual statement. When the reporters leave their oasis of light to pursue their investigations, Washington?that city of broad avenues and vistas?becomes, as Pakula visualizes it, a dark and scary place. Its great public buildings loom up suddenly and oppressively out of the shadows, dominating, seeming to threaten the tiny figures of the ever-hustling newsmen. When, finally, they begin to penetrate the homes of potential informants, the material the reporters seek comes haltingly, fearfully, from people who, even in familiar surroundings, seek to shelter themselves...
...home, and he found she was inside. There was a great fire blazing in the hearth, and the smell of cedar split in billets, and sweetwood burning, spread all over the island. She was singing inside the cave with a sweet voice and she went up and down the loom and wove with a golden shuttle...
Modern scholars have noted one important detail here: the parallel between Kalypso's loom and the loom of Penelope, roughly corresponding to the grade on a paper and the grade on the final exam, respectively. There are two interpretations of the water: either it is Odysseus's exam, which he will overcome only with the help of Leukothea's magic veil (corresponding to present-day crib notes), or it is a symbol of Odysseus's knowledge, and thus the source of his consternation, "barren...
...Bread. The exodus figures loom even larger because of a sudden 50% drop in immigration; that is largely a result of the Kremlin's sharp cut back in the number of Russian Jews al lowed to leave the Soviet Union. Only 8,518 Russian Jews immigrated to Israel in 1975, compared with 16,816 in 1974 and 33,477 in 1973. Jerusalem is just as alarmed by the fact that 40% of new immigrants from Western countries have returned to their original homelands within five years. Last year a total of 19,000 Jews left Israel, while only...