Word: perished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conducted a series of "Pugwash Conferences" between Western and Communist intellectuals, promoted trade with Eastern bloc countries, and met frequently with Soviet leaders-efforts that won him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1960. Said he: "We must either learn to live with the Communists or resign ourselves to perish with them...
Fiction within fiction is an old form, predating Chaucer, Boccaccio and perhaps even Scheherazade, who provided the first law of storytelling: enchant or perish. Author Wain seems familiar with the rewards and risks of laminating two tales. Wain may not achieve the iridescences of Vladimir Nabokov, modern master of the technique, but he moves from one story to the other without draining color from either. One reason is Giles' ability to regard himself as a character. His comments when both he and his fictional doppelgänger love and lose: "He had been able to contemplate the story...
...Wall, but under cover of the clinch, the man is hastily snipping the wire. When the gap is large enough, the lovers rush through followed by a group of friends who were hiding near by. Others, in scenes reminiscent of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, perish within a few feet of the West, or are arrested and imprisoned because they seek to be reunited with their families...
...this intellectual dilly-dallying left the actual story line in woeful shape. Particularly in Gotterdammerung, there are major inconsistencies--most spectacularly, it seems the gods who expire in a blaze of flame and music at the very end need not perish at all, since the ring which had doomed them is back in the hands of its rightful owners...
...majority of the nation's private schools are religious schools, some of which limit enrollment on the basis of belief; as a result, religious organizations were particularly worried about the plan. But so were many secular private schools, which were sure to perish if their tax exemptions were withdrawn. More than 120,000 letters, most expressing vitriolic opposition to the plan, descended on the IRS after the proposal was announced...