Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although individuals could show human values, anyone in a large group was only a pawn in the game. Even the liberal Dubcek figure in Deltchev turns out to be bogus--a political opportunist. Given the climate of the times, Ambler found himself a pawn as well: I found an old early fifties 25-cent paperback which screams...
...Women are criminalized: they start identifying with the criminal element and committing real crimes. The police want to keep them as informers--the streetwalker is just a pawn in the whole cops and robbers game," St. James explains...
This self-consciousness is reflected in Dylan's later protest songs. In Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll and Only a Pawn in Their Game, the word "I" never appeared. He assumed his audience's sensibilities to be the same as his own--he could lay out his story and leaves it at that. When he returned to protest, with The Ballad of George Jackson, he could no longer be so sure, and the song emphasized that these were his personal reactions to Jackson's murder...
...discuss. But what the Syrians are trying to do is to diminish the importance of the Geneva Peace Conference and impose the terms of any settlement in the Middle East by commanding a majority in the Security Council. The Arab regimes are using the Palestinian question as a pawn on their chessboard of rivalry and intrigue...
...expectations-neither up nor down, but definitely sideways. His sensibility is gentler and even more childlike than that of his master. Playing a young Sigi Holmes,* a detective suffering a near-terminal case of sibling rivalry because Big Brother Sherlock is always getting the good cases, he becomes a pawn in one of the latter's non-stop games of mastermind with Professor Moriarty. This one has something to do with a stolen state document on which the fate of empire trembles...