Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proclaiming a kind of spirit that has long since passed from their lives as well as our own. The world of the dead Follies and the reality of the present intermingle constantly in Sondheim's work. No sooner does a performer do her old soft shoe than the tin-pan-alley trumpet fades into a somber and often dissonant piece of music Sondheim has written to capture the mood of disintegration that hangs over the ongoing celebration...
...Yorkers, as well as some rank and file elements elsewhere, have also kept the pugnacity that originally guided Panther tactics. The Oakland Panthers have recently become more restrained in their activities. The increasing preoccupation with "pan-revolutionism" and ideological rhetoric helped weaken the Panthers' efforts to attract the less sophisticated. The fact that so many Panther leaders are in jail or exile also damaged discipline...
...mask of a metaphysical clown. Cosmicomics was rare science fiction-half Borges, half Groucho Marx-impishly mythologizing how the universe began. Inventing a cartoon-like character named Qfwfq and a supporting cast headed by a galaxy-Eve. Mrs. Vhd Vhd Calvino winged it with superb airiness -a Peter Pan for the space...
...three novellas comprising The Watcher, all of which predate Cosmicomics, Peter Pan is grounded. This earlier Calvino may not have been quite ready for a tragic mask, but his wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church...
...confessional Teller went on: it was Franklin Roosevelt in a speech to the Pan American Union a few days before Hitler invaded the lowlands in 1939, which convinced him to join the war effort. Not surprisingly, the speech was a call to scientists to aid in the defense "not of the U. S., but of freedom...