Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet one suspects that this preoccupation with Egyptian arcana has affected Drury's other literary skills. Drury was never famous for creating endearingly human characterizations; yet the figures in his latest book actually impress the reader as having been embalmed for a thousand years. They are not unbelievable--it is...
Then, after she became wife of the Chairman and still found herself alienated from the work she wanted to do, she feared that misconceptions about her personal history were still unresolved. With no one to defend her (apparently not even Mao), she made another special appearance before the Party organization...
Glinka (1804-57) was the father of Russian nationalistic music. To listen to Russlan, composed in 1842, is to hear much that followed in the work of Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, the young Stravinsky, even the Prokofiev of Love for Three Oranges. Russlan is a delicious fairy tale scored...
"This is the winter of our discontent." The Shakespearian line keeps pounding in the brain as you watch the aging Henry II of The Lion In Winter try to hold together the tenuous union of twelfth century fiefdoms he had built. But with one son unable to understand why a...
The issue of whether the press has a right to print Government-stamped "secrets" keeps bedeviling Government and journalism. It always will. High-minded, and sometimes high-flown rhetoric about the rights of the Government or of the press are heard; there also exists the public's right, and perhaps...