Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, which must approve parts of any Carter energy package. Said Udall after the Three Mile Island accident: "We may have rushed headlong into a dangerous technology without sufficient understanding of the pitfalls." Both Udall and Alaska Senator Mike Gravel demanded an outright moratorium on all new nuclear power plants...
Once safely ensconced at Berkeley, Levenson was greeted by a critical response to his first work that ranged from bland encouragement to outright viciousness. The radical nature of Levenson's work--his relativism, his concern for the context and social bases for thought and his use of dialectics evoked the wrath of the senior American Sinologist then writing, Arthur Hummel. Hummel wrote that Levenson was merely "out to get his man," and that the book "really tells us more about the wayward, corrosive thinking of our time than it does about ... 'the first mind of new China...
...under-developed sub-plot of servants and their affairs obliquely satirizes the main plot, but it cannot offset the blunders. Lightning quick changes in character, contradictions swept aside with the wave of a hand, and outright lame poetry seriously mar this work. Given such a weak vessel, the Boston Company can be forgiven much, but their unimaginative and overly simplistic approach does little to salvage this play...
While he and Hieu are undeniably zealous crusaders, their tales of prison life rival those of Solzghenitsyn. Toai and Hieu insist that all the captives in Vietnamese jails are political prisoners, whose only crime is lackluster support or outright opposition to the government. While prisoners in the re-education camps work at hard labor, the captives in the jails are kept inside a small room and are taken outside only for interrogation. "It was so crowded that you had to sleep standing up, and when I got out for a while I could not sleep lying down," Toai says. Hieu...
...personalities of the three drummers do not come across in the dynamic way that the piece demands. Still, the composition is strong; the dark, winding ensemble sections are executed with great panache, and the rotating half-dozen horn soloists maintain a tension that rises from the moody to the outright schizophrenic...