Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kerr said the report, dated November 22, had both his and Whitlock's names on it although neither of them had ever seen it before it reached University administrators...
Election supervisors said they stopped the voting in one Windhoek precinct because blacks were brought to the polls by the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), a multi-party backed by South Africa. Because of the SWAPO boycott the DTA is seen as the likely winner...
Then, around 1922, he made a complete volte-face. He was only 34 then, and the desire to be an old master seized him; the modernist experiment was too uncertain, and history, he thought, would condemn it. "I have seen," he wrote to André Breton in 1922, "yes, I have finally seen, that terrible things are happening today in painting." Amid hoots of derision from his former surrealist admirers, he marched firmly to the rear guard and took up an irritably defensive stance, maintaining it for the next half-century...
...different plane is Last Wave Director Peter Weir's earlier Picnic at Hanging Rock. Though not scheduled for the New York festival, it is a haunting re-creation of a true incident in 19th century Australian history, in which some schoolgirls disappear from an outback outing, never to be seen again, and with no satisfactory explanation for their disappearance ever discovered. Weir creates an oppressive atmosphere, a compound of heat, isolation and sexual innuendo that is quite singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast...
...said Harvard "has taken a 180 degree turn" since he was an undergrad. "During the late '60s and early '70s Harvard was a tumultuous, politically alive place. Now it is very calm in comparison." Cohen added, "this is still the most articulate and intelligent student body that I have seen anywhere. That will probably never change...