Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1950s and later reported on China, then off limits to U.S. journalists, for United Press International from Tokyo. "I read Cheng's manuscript, and it knocked me out," says Kriss. "It is a powerful testament, akin to Arthur Koestler's tale of life under Soviet Communism, Darkness at Noon. It's an account of a brave woman's stubborn resistance to an overwhelmingly powerful regime." Kriss, who visited China last autumn, has watched with apprehension the government's recent attacks on intellectuals, students and those considered "bourgeois liberals." "Many of those responsible for the abuses of the Cultural Revolution...
...quotidian title: "Dawn," "Daylight," "Dusk" and "Darkness." Such tone painting is not surprising, for Harbison's music generally contains a strong theatrical element, reflected in his predilection for opera and song cycle. The symphony, however, is not some Americanized La Mer (whose first movement is titled "From Dawn to Noon on the Sea"); the sun may come up and the sun may go down, but it never sets on his cool rational spirit...
...Military interventionism as embodied in the Reagan Doctrine is in tatters. It has led to deceiving our allies, trading arms to terrorists, circumventing Congress and, most profoundly, losing the confidence of the American people and our European allies," said the Delaware senator before a capacity noon-time crowd at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics...
Swimming to Cambodia--noon...
...Platoon--noon...