Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visions" are an obvious pretext for threading together autonomous images and scenes, the sort of pretext Dylan has abused in earlier long songs like "Desolation Row," (Opus 6). But here there is sustained a consistent, liking, mood of dim light, vast space, and timelessness, a mood common to the above examples, and to the following long line and image...
...crisis that shook Britain and at times threatened to topple the throne. The Beaver's main thesis, certain to be debated, is that some supremely powerful opponents of the King's marriage were not merely interested in blocking it, but in using it as a pretext for ridding themselves of a ruler whom they did not want. The leaders in this back-room plot, believed Beaverbrook, were Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury. "The Archbishop did not want either the King or the marriage," said the Beaver. "Baldwin, the Prime Minister...
...civilian population is endangered." Radio Baghdad told it another way. "The Kurdish rebels," it said, "are collapsing. Sixty rebels were killed in the Barzan area, 75 in Khorman, 80 in Korah and 20 in Koti. The insurgents were so exhausted that they asked for a truce on the pretext of removing dead bodies." But discounting the conflicting claims, it still seemed to have been a major military victory for the Kurds...
...girl was coaxed into a sound studio by a student disk jockey on the pretext that he wanted to tape her voice for a commercial. Then, turning hunter, he loosened the doorknob, and from the control room sent a screaming high-frequency sweep that scrambled his victim's brains. Two points...
...tooled himself, using it adroitly to control the pitch and tone of events ever since last March 10, when the Directory fired his friend and ally in the north of South Viet Nam, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, commander of the I Corps. Tri Quang had been looking for a pretext to move, and he found it in the dismissal of Thi, who was popular enough among Buddhists and his soldiers to provide an opening wedge of discontent. In a welling tide of violence, in which cars were burned, windows broken and the police and army baited, the Buddhist mobs forced...