Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supporters of tonight's militant march-which was denied a permit last week-began massing in Dupont Circle at 8 for a rally backing the National Liberation Front. At exactly 8:30, the group poured out of the small park, moving up Massachusetts Avenue toward the embassy to present an "eviction notice" to its staff...
...church is set up as if for a church bazaar. Little booths roped off with string sell anti-war books (ten per cent off), food (coffee and sandwich for a fifteen cent "donation"), and bumper stickers (fifty cents). Others provide general information, housing arrangements, and the ever-present leaflets and flyers...
...deliberately artificial. Jules and Jim gets by because of its apparent faithfulness to lifelike detail and incident. But Truffaut's favorite pastime is to manipulate his audiences. Forcing us to identify with his characters, he hides an attitude toward their actions that shapes our feelings. Ophuls' attitude is continuously present near the surface of La Ronde, constantly making itself felt when the relations between his characters change. And Ophuls judges right. Given the lightness of his characters-any one of whom one sees for a maximum of twenty minutes-a script built on their "love"-relations could easily have become...
...letter, they had asked for a personal meeting so that representatives of the March and rally could present Nixon "directly with demands for the initiation of swiftly-phased withdrawal from Vietnam...
...present moment appears to be one in which language has been surrendered as a possibility; we are silent at films, in music, among ourselves. We are living in silence. So it's no longer surprising that poetry, like our voices, has turned inward, listening to its own hermetic cadences. Poets in America, having no choice, have either sealed themselves within the tombs of universities, or become exiles in their own land, living far away from the sources of anxiety. To write is to survive...