Word: placed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet people all the time. I went to a noodle place by myself today, and sat down alone at a table. Within five minutes I was talking with a young couple across from me, and by the time I left they had made me promise I would call so we could meet for lunch again. They want me to help them with their English and they'll help me with Chinese. I've only spent time with one Chinese student, but hopefully that will change as time goes...
What was most upsetting to me was the realization that the country in whose history, literature, philosophy and landscape I had invested so much time and energy and interest--that this country was not the beautiful place I had wanted to believe it was. I was horrified, along with most of the world, at the actions of the Chinese government...
...schools hit by bloodshed, the effects linger long after the police have done their job. In Stockton, Calif. a playground shooting last January left five pupils dead. Fred Busher, the head of the school district's psychology staff, says students "realize now that school is not the safe place it used to be and that something terrible can happen at any instant." The youngsters, he adds, are "dealing with things that we hoped they'd never have to face, or at least not until they were adults." He concedes that healing "will take months, even years...
...chapters that are the most contentious. He asserts that Japan now holds the technological balance of power in the world. The Americans may own the missiles, for example, but they cannot fly straight without Japanese semiconductors. Japan, Ishihara argues, must use its technological leverage to assume its rightful place in the world. No longer must the country walk a respectful, and silent, three steps behind...
...truncated and unrevised form, The People will add little to Malamud's reputation, which hardly needs embellishment in any case. His novels, including The Natural and The Assistant, and books of stories such as The Magic Barrel and Idiots First long ago established his place among the best postwar American writers. This triumph was not easily won. Malamud never catered to popular tastes or expectations. His fiction was often as grim as it was enchanting. He wrote, and rewrote, slowly, with consummate care...