Word: rest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earth Opera achieved it that night for me and possibly for the rest of us in the room, all to the backdrop of the muted political reality of the Resistance, whose representatives talked soft and compelling sense between sets...
Those were distinctly middle-class concerns. The poor people of Washington and the rest of the country knew why the campaign was here...
...group went to Denver and started giving free concerts. At the end of July and in early August, Troy Fleming and a girl named Barbara Taylor split from the rest of the group and came to Boston...
Fellow Prisoners. Russell's chronology begins with his imprisonment for pacifism in England during World War I, a subject about which he is willing to jest: "My fellow prisoners seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence, as was shown by their having been caught." It ends with his virtual banishment from American academia during World War II, when C.C.N.Y. reneged on its commitment to him because of his reputed permissive attitudes about sex. This Russell finds no laughing matter...
Malcolm Lowry suffered the agonies of a man who combined Proustian ambitions with a writer's block. He conceived of an organic body of work to be called The Voyage That Never Ends, at the heart of which would rest his one masterpiece, Under the Volcano (1947). That novel-perhaps the only story of an alcoholic ever to succeed at the level of tragedy rather than self-pity -revealed in Lowry a dark, obsessive genius that kept struggling for light. It never shone fully in his two other novels (Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic), his poems, or in the short stories...