Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarred into political consciousness in the middle '30s by the ravages of the Depression on his students and the rise of Nazi Germany, Oppenheimer became too suddenly a social activist, naively lending his support to Communist as well as liberal causes. By the time the U.S. entered World War II, however, Oppenheimer had become disenchanted with Communism. Called upon to head the Los Alamos atom-bomb laboratory after a brilliant teaching career at Berkeley, he turned to his new assignment with ferocious energy, wasting away to 116 Ibs., but performing what even his enemies admit was a "magnificent...
Takamiyama's rise has been meteoric but arduous. Recruited by a sumo manager on a visit to Hawaii in 1964, he was persuaded to move to Japan and train for the ring. In Tokyo, he shivered through the cold, dank winter, struggling to learn the language and get accustomed to the unfamiliar food. All work and no poi made Takamiyama a dull boy. He dutifully performed an apprentice's chores, such as scrubbing senior wrestlers' backs, and spent long hours toughening his body by slamming against a wooden pillar...
Driving through the Negev at night is like driving anywhere. The darkness obscures the rocky, barren plain that stretches out from the road, and it is impossible to see the rough peaks that rise sharply from the flat desert surface. It's just you and the highway, and the road could be the New Jersey Turnpike or a quiet strip in the country...
Later Rudd was asked if the Columbia movement wasn't nihilistic. No, he answered; their struggle was based on a clearcut Marxian dialectic. One had, on one hand, the Columbia ruling structure, he explained. Complete opposition to this would give rise to the exact opposite, which was, he said, a national democratic socialism. Just why national democratic socialism has to be the exact opposite of the Columbia ruling structure isn't at all clear to me. And it seems to me that Rudd decided it was so because it would best fit his argument...
Three archetypal murderers crisscross their dual pilgrimages, bent on savagely having waste the inhabitants of the primitive countryside. Irrational and unexplained, the murderers rise up like dream figures, as relentlessly hounding as the Furies. The country people become a Greek chorus, polarized between suspicion and curiosity, innate generosity and indifferent cruelty. McCarthy captures the intimate tonalities of their simple speech...