Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world is richer in associations than in meanings, and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between...
...dignitaries who yesterday gave commemorative speeches at local high schools as part of the dedication celebrations for the John F. Kennedy library...
...affair of Lady Amherst and Mensch holds the reader's chief interest and sympathy because it's the most coherent and human part of Letters; the other characters dance a contorted jig about it, A. B. Cook III and his descendant A. B. Cook VI send their unborn children endless genealogical accounts of the family's intrigues, centering around the War of 1812. Jerome Bonaparte Bray, part dictator, part human fly, part servant of a computer, plots a Second American Revolution. Todd Andrews--still alive, despite The Floating Opera's denouement--writes to his dead father contemplating a second suicide...
...fewer. While one might expect this--American reporters' access to the mainland has been extremely limited--it leaves a gaping hole. A Turning Wheel is subtitled "Three Decades of the Asian Revolution," but its author has omitted a discussion of the revolution that many believe has shaped the better part of the region's modern history...
...Harvard students don't focus on dissidents in the Soviet Union or the boat people or the victims of apartheid, they are not students but just a part of the system, Soni says...