Word: portent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Evtushenko, it looks forward to a time when "Posterity will remember/And will burn with shame/ Remembering these strange days/ When common honesty was called courage." The crowds who turn out to hear the poets' work are a hopeful portent. When citizens are allowed to judge literature for themselves, when the highest officials wrangle publicly over the fundamental rights and aims of creative artists, they are engaged in the closest thing to a democratic debate that Soviet history has seen. The depth of public response to the new "literature of truth" is itself the strongest deterrent to the party...
...work as Garbo's double, but Romilda's mother refused to let her go on the ground that Rudolph Valentino had reportedly been poisoned and that was a portent of what a good Italian could expect in America. So Romilda began living with Scicolone instead, and ended up by returning to her native Pozzuoli with a baby daughter...
...Margaret Ann Goldwater, 17, beauteous debutante daughter of the Arizona Senator. A captivating campaigner in her own right-she has twice been elected president of her class at suburban Phoenix's Judson School-Queen Peggy will be crowned by her father, who may or may not see political portent in passing on a title held last year by Lynda Bird Johnson...
...long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute-a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists like to argue that bats are humanity's benefactors because they gobble vast quantities of insects, rare is the man who even bothers to listen. Soon, even the naturalists may moderate their enthusiasm, for the U.S. Public Health Service has produced scientific backing for the bat's repulsive reputation...
That will climax seven days of feasting, since in Laos, death is thought to be a release, and a portent of happier times...