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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...
...groups held a clear majority, there were hopes for a coalition government between the three. None of the Angolan soldiers are particularly well trained, but their will to fight has been stiffened by a bewildering array of mercenaries as Angola more and more becomes a big-power pawn and a battleground...
...brigade of intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler and George Orwell, had their lives and work shaped irrevocably by their experiences in Spain. "As a militiaman," George Orwell later wrote in Homage to Catalonia, "one was a soldier against Franco, but one was also a pawn in an enormous struggle that was being fought out between political theories." Albert Camus observed afterwards: "It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this...