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Word: shatter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successors in the Kremlin, and despise their grossly simplistic reiterations of his ideas. Their chauvinism and anti-Semitism would enrage him. The expansion of Communist systems to more than one-third of the globe would please him; the quarrels between Communist countries, verging on armed conflict, would shatter his dream that the victory of revolution would bring peace among nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LENIN: COMMUNISM'S CHARTER MYTH | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is; never in this life is the making finished; always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Quotable Lonergan | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...Drum. The book sold more than 1,500,000 copies around the world (about 600,000 in the U.S.), as appalled and fascinated readers in 16 languages absorbed the dwarf's devastating, knee-high view of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Oskar's "sing-scream" could shatter glass. His magic drum carried him back and forth in time. One of his best tricks was breaking up Nazi rallies by hiding beneath the speakers' platforms and beating out counterrhythms on the tin drum. In his writing, in his life, Grass has played his own version of Oskar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dentist's Chair as an Allegory in Life | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence, an awareness of the constant surprise of life, which one rarely finds in a man so old; but he also seems possessed of a certain embryonic fragility. Somehow, I had the impression that I might shatter him if I breathed too hard, as the wind shatters a porcelain statuette placed too near a windowsill. Yet when he spoke, he sounded strong and steady...

Author: By Paul G. Kleinman, | Title: Talking with Isaac Bashevis Singer | 4/9/1970 | See Source »

...hardly likely to comply. Since 1967, they have followed a Middle East policy designed to achieve what one British diplomat last week described as "stable instability." Moscow wants neither peace nor a fourth round of full-scale war, but rather a situation of churning unrest that would finally shatter whatever influence the U.S. still has with the Arab states. That would allow Russia to become the dominant power in the region. The Soviet policy rests on two premises: 1) a reasonably astute use of Russian weapons and tactics by the Arabs; and 2) a disinclination on the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Middle East: Balancing on the Brink | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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