Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time. Robert Liddell's Cavafy: a Biography sorts out the ambiguities of the poet's life; Edmund Keeley, who praised Liddell's work as "the most authoritative and comprehensive biography of the poet," focuses on Cavafy's poetic development in Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress...
...cities and countries of their imaginations." But Cavafy, in relative literary isolation, "was the first of these to project a coherent poetic image of the mythical city that shaped his vision"--what Keeley terms "the Alexandrian mode." Keeley shows how Cavafy's development of his "myth in progress" paralleled his personal acceptance of Alexandria in literal and metaphorical terms--and how the mythical city increasingly shut out the real one below Cavafy's apartment window. Thus, imagination and memory became the primary agents of poetic re-creation, giving the real city importance as a "catalyst" for the synthesis...
Mondale called Carter twice, on a scrambled phone from a local U.S. embassy. ("You sound like Donald Duck," remarked Carter at the beginning of the first call. "I am Donald Duck," replied Mondale.) He had some progress-and a few problems-to report...
...surprise: parliamentary elections, she declared dramatically, would be held in March. "Let us go to the polls," she continued, "with the resolve to reaffirm the power of the people and to uphold the fair name of India as a land committed to the path of reconciliation, peace and progress...
Thus Mrs. Gandhi can argue that India never had it so good as when the nation was under the discipline of the emergency. In addition to economic progress, she can point to improved labor relations, abolition of rural debts and bonded labor, and a more efficient bureaucracy. Said she last week: "Anyone can see that today the nation is more healthy, efficient and dynamic than it has been for a long time...