Word: recant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowadays Evtushenko reads nothing in public. He was recently spotted in a Moscow gastronom buying vodka while his wife Galina pleaded: "You've had too much. It's bad for you. Come home." But drunk or sober, Evtushenko has yet to recant the verse that could well be his epitaph...
...because Miss Winters learned from Harvard, her lecture was also a great deal more. She was strongly affected by her stay here, and the crowd in the Kirkland Junior Common Room heard a great actress publicly recant some of the basic values of her life and her profession. In dramatic fashion, her lecture illustrated how fruitful an exchange between academic and professional cultures...
...science were far from cordial. The four young men who met in a Roman palace in 1603 to organize the accademia were taking a considerable chance. And trouble came quickly. In 1633, Galileo Galilei, most famous of the Lynxes, was picked up by the Inquisition and compelled to recant his heretical notion that the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo's condemnation broke the academy's spirit, and for more than a century it was hardly more than a library. In 1795, the academy was revived, only to be suppressed in 1840 by Pope Gregory...
...people, petty bourgeois washed out of their lairs by the Revolution." It was in fact the opposite: a memorable attack on a system that crushed both the flesh and spirit of humanity. After Olesha published several other works, the commissars took a second look, and he was forced to recant...