Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essays and novels reflect this fatalism, but she is nonetheless alive to others' sorrows and enthusiasms. The destruction of Amado's orchids in "Quiet Days in Malibu" by a flash fire confirms Didion's view of live as an unpredictable but inevitable series of large and small tragedies. In "The White Album," Didion notes that neither she nor her friends was surprised at the news of the Sharon Tate murders. She walks through her days anticipating horror, sporadically paralyzed by migraines, dreaming of "the children burning in the locked car in the supermarket parking lot...the freeway sniper who feels...
...hell out of the doorway and meet me in the basement. He unrolls the carpet and there's four Winchester rifles" plus submachine guns and handguns. McMullen angrily told the supplier to bring the guns next time to his apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. But he nonetheless bought the guns - with $2,500 that he said was supplied by the Irish Northern Aid Committee, an organization that raises funds ostensibly to support the families of Irishmen held by the British...
...rich selection of the great musicals of the past: Oklahoma!, The Most Happy Fella, West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Camelot. The musical version of Peter Pan, which first played on Broadway in 1954, does not belong in that exalted company. But it is a rare treat nonetheless, and this stylish, spirited revival ought to set a standard for all those that follow...
...also stresses that his visit is private and "nonpolitical." Nonetheless, in Washington, D.C., this week he will deliver a public lecture on spiritual development at D.A.R. Constitution Hall, as well as meet with Congressmen and the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has been trying to visit the U.S. for six years, but the State Department has always discouraged the trip, telling him it would be "inconvenient," specifically because of protracted and delicate negotiations with Peking...
...Nonetheless, the issue of job security continues to preoccupy the police. While the number of uniformed policemen remains at 41, the administration continues to hire more watchmen and student security guards, who the police contend are taking over their duties and reducing potential officer hirings...