Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jungle rot and death in childbirth. Cynical political hacks are failed Communists and newspapermen are often failed poets who have difficulty with the fundamentals of news writing. "You have to start with the dead people, young man," advises one helpful editor. The novel's title does not refer to the church, which the author oddly does not deal with, but to a Lima bar and brothel called the Cathedral...
...conspicuously absent. He states that "only the United States can insist on and win concessions from the Arab states." Who will, I ask, insist on and win concessions from Israel? The Soviets? The simple fact is that for peace to come about, Israel will have to make concessions. I refer Walzer to the recent statement by Senator Charles percy (R-III)" After returning from a trip to the Middle East, percy stated that he saw no chance of a Middle East peace unless Israel draws back essentially to its frontiers that existed before the 1967 Middle East war" (Washington Post...
Only during questioning from the audience did DuBois refer to her husband, the black writer and sociologist, who died...
Worldwide Prestige. Most of all, perhaps, the Shah is attracted to Pan Am by the worldwide prestige he will enjoy from his association with the airline. In many nations, the "blue meatball"-as airline executives refer to Pan Am's familiar globelike insignia-is regarded as a symbol of American technology and economic power...
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain is manifestly sympathetic to the Indians who call themselves traditionals and refer to other, "sellout" Indians as "Apples"-that is, red on the outside, all white just below the skin. The movie has something urgent to say, but its theme and the situation it portrays are so tragically familiar that much of their impact is vitiated. Despite Robert Redford's narration, Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain is also a shambles, manufactured with the kind of earnest clumsiness that gives documentaries a bad name...