Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employee of an art gallery. They lead a life which they perceive as intellectual and ideological stagnation. Vincent reads like The Looting of the Third World as he escorts a tree to a rich man's villa outside the city. Driving through Geneva, he counts his progress through the day by narrating his journey to himself, announcing street intersections and gear changes, in a sort of personal litany. Absorbed in himself, unattached to his job, he is an academic without a campus to reinforce him, and the songs he sings to himself("politicians and merchants, lined up like accomplices behind...
...Soviets organized the complex resupply flights to the Arabs also indicates that the Russians were prepared for the war. Ready also were several of Russia's Cosmos satellites, which after launching orbited 180 miles above the Middle Eastern battlefields providing Moscow with important photographs of the battle in progress...
...statement--read to the Commission on Social Progress and Human Rights by the Catholic leftist Rev. Paul Mayer--criticized the Soviet government for "a campaign to silence not only your intellectuals, but any Soviet citizens who seek to express their rights...
...Commission on Social Progress and Human Rights is one of 14 workshops at the World Peace Congress, in which more than 3,000 delegates from 141 countries are participating...
...most hopeful sign that they might be making progress was yet an other of Henry Kissinger's sudden, surprise trips, this one to Moscow, where he began a series of private meetings over the Middle East crisis with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Kissinger had spent much of the week with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington, but he managed to cover his departure with a typical, though perhaps inevitable, Kissinger feint; he spent the evening at a glittering dinner party hosted by Huang Chen, the head of China's liaison office in Washington. That affair had been...