Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working life. One of the first and most publicized of city communes was at the coal-mining center of Yangchuan in Shansi province. At Yangchuan. according to the Peking People's Daily, "living quarters were readjusted so that cadres, workers and their dependents are housed according to their pit, shifts, sections and teams." That done, "political, cultural and physical-culture activities were organized . . . Each person is a worker-soldier, as well as a student, whose living quarters are workshop, barracks and classroom...
...forever on the move: he bounces onstage to demonstrate high-jumping technique or prowls the auditorium calling out sudden changes in the script. He carves the air with the sweeping gestures of an orchestra conductor, comes to roost like a stork, one leg cocked, on the rail of the pit. "Give it music." he may order an actor, or "Give it a Marlon Brando mumble...
Brazil's Oct. 3 presidential election, the most important political event of the year in Latin America, will pit a stone-spined old soldier with a leftwing, nationalist program against a fiery-eyed spellbinder whose platform is austere conservatism. One afternoon last week the old soldier, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65, resigned as War Minister in order "to go into the arena with no privileges or priorities." Then the red-cheeked descendant of Dutch-English immigrants slipped into mufti in an adjoining room, walked out to a waiting Jeep, and drove off through popping firecrackers...
That night, when the first dazed rescuers began to dig, there was hope the prisoners might still be alive. Canaries, carried underground in cages to test the air, survived, and 31 pit ponies were taken out alive and well. But, ominously, no "pipe talk" came back when the diggers tapped messages on the one water pipe that seemed to be intact, and a weary worker came to the surface shaking his head, saying, "It will take us a week to get near them." All through the night, womenfolk, some wailing, others grimly tightlipped, stood clinging to a fence near...
Incomprehensible World. As the two men lie dying, they agree that at last life has some meaning. Author Pick (Out of the Pit, The Lonely Aren't Alone) makes his moral clear-and, finally, unnecessarily explicit. Man, saysPick in effect, is a creature of turmoil who, if he is doomed outside the sheltered valleys, is stifled within them. The view, powerfully expressed in a well-written book, is that of an existentialist, a romanticist who believes that a free man is one who accepts the world as incomprehensible...