Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kalb, Ill., which was a major manufacturing center for barbed wire in the late 1800s, is a favorite hunting ground. Armed with metal detectors, collectors forage through old farm land, overgrown ravines and even garbage dumps. Most obey a strict credo: ask permission before snipping a barb, and splice new wire in its place...
...most bizarre Norton lectures ever given: "i, six nonlectures." As with cumming's poetry, they're impossible to describe, but they seem to be autobiographical, spiced with some of cumming's favorite poems in world literature. Cummings explained his nonlectures this way: "while a genuine lecturer must obey the the rules of mental decency, and clothe his personal idiosyncrasies in collectively acceptable generalities, an authentic ignoramus remains quite indecently free to speak as he feels. This prospect cheers me...since I can't tell you what I know (or rather what I don't know there's nothing to prevent...
...swiftness of the retreat was not the only problem. Discipline among retreating troops in some cases collapsed completely as officers left their men leaderless or troops simply refused to obey orders. In the coastal city of Tuy Hoa - the destination of tens of thousands of refugees - unruly rangers roved around aimlessly, shooting into homes and further terrifying the people. By midweek the police had gone, the banks were closed, and it was impossible to buy bread or rice...
...aback, the government soldiers explained that they only wanted to take him to a hospital and that there was no reason to be afraid. Then they suggested to him that, when interrogated, he tell their officers he had been shot by his own comrades when he had refused to obey orders to move forward. Only then did the Khmer Rouge soldier allow himself to be taken to an aid station, where he became an object of great curiosity. One amazed government soldier remarked, 'If that had happened to any of us, we would have called for help the first...
...rebellion" of the title was against the classicism of 18th century art, with its obsessive search for ideal form, its demand that artists find and paint such general moral principles as they could discern in nature and in history. As Clark suggests, totalitarian painting and scholarship must still obey these formalist principles. Though the romantic rebels would not have known about that, they did insist on the sanctity of the individual sensibility, their right to paint man and nature as they envisioned them...