Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memory--the only way in which Charlotte, as a child of a comfortable family in the temperate zone, can come to term with the present. Grace tells us, "she was immaculate of history and innocent of politics." Marin's disappearance is "the only event in Charlotte's life to resist her revisions and erasures." Ultimately, it is Marin who makes Charlotte realize that "it" really does not come out alright...
...move silently and well against the enemy." Although they were issued rifles, most pygmies prefer carrying home-made bows that shoot arrows whose tips are coated with a lethal drug (derived from local plants), which kills the monkeys that they hunt for food. Skeptical foreign correspondents could not resist joking that the rebels had suffered "a bay of pygmies," and that the tiny warriors had skewered the enemy from their hiding posts in clumps of crabgrass...
...hospitals, churches, universities, mass transit authorities, and businesses. It links the easy victories of many of these local assaults to a state of mind among the citizenry that also made Watergate and Viet Nam possible. But basically the book provides hints on 'how to do it,' how to resist...
Worthy stresses the vital need for leaders to resist the temptation to "withhold news of negative developments" when the struggle has begun. People can absorb temporary defeats, but they leave the battle if they are lied to, or if their leaders are not fully "accurate in technical, legal and political information" that they disseminate...
Heavy metal has acquired a rather strange reputation these days. It is a brand of rock that never set out to be "art" and can do without intellectual and critical backgammon games, but nonetheless, rock critics seem unable to resist. One such critic, Lester Bangs, dismisses it as a "tyrannosaurus tamed into brontosaurus mild-mannered." I guess we are supposed to see the development of this genre in England in terms of the birth of a veritable fire-breathing British dragon while the noble St. George and bands like Pink Floyd, the Yardbirds, and even Led Zeppelin were occupied with...