Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing, King Alonso is on his way home from marrying his daughter to an African king. More important, Caliban is far from the most evil character in the play. It is true that he has tried to ravish Prospero's daughter, but he was not born to reason or to know right from wrong; he is not immoral, but amoral. It is also true that he plans a rebellion against Prospero. But Prospero, of all people, having been driven out of his rightful dukedom, ought to appreciate that Caliban resents Prospero's blithe colonialistic seizure of power on an island...
Perhaps the reason so many unmarried couples are living together is because they have observed that marriages don't last, but friendships...
...Department no longer seems so confident just where food prices will end up, and last week conceded that prices would probably climb by about 11% during the year, just about the same as in 1978. Unanticipated large-scale Soviet grain purchases in the U.S. market are part of the reason, but food prices will also rise because of the escalating cost of petroleum products used by farmers and food processors...
...fact, politically and economically, there is nothing neo under the sun. The reason these men are labeled neoconservatives is simply that every one of them began flying by flapping his left wing. Typically, when Kristol graduated from City College in New York in 1940, he was a young socialist. Today he defends the market, though not quite as staunchly as Steinfels asserts...
Mayakovsky's reputation as the "iron poet" of the Revolution had slumped temporarily when he put a bullet through his all too vulnerable heart at the age of 36. Obsessed with suicide all his life, he finally, for no clearly discernible reason, "did away with himself as he would an enemy," as another poet, Marina Tsvetayeva, remarked. Official reservations about Mayakovsky's posthumous status were dissipated by Stalin in 1935, when he declared him to be the most talented poet of the Soviet era. "Indifference to his memory and to his work is a crime," he added menacingly...