Word: shield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where their belly buttons grew they floated, pink and new as toes. They swam in a shield of arms...
...bring more misery, degradation, and even death to loved ones than wars, disease and boozeless crime all put together, but loyalty will remain steadfast and true. Those who are dedicated to liquor will worship it, brag about it, shield it from criticism like a doting mother protecting a spoiled and criminal son, even when statistics show John Barleycorn to be probably our most expensive national "luxury...
...magic glow of age-old ritual fires. In the center stand the king, the queens, the elders and the sub-chieftans--all the ranking leaders of the tribe--humbled and ridiculed by the insults of the people. A young prince steps forward, his head held high, his shield and spear in hand: "Follow me," he beckons to the people, "this evil king betrays his sacred trust." More princes and military captains mimic his example, defiling the name of the monarch and calling the people to rebellion. Then, remarkably, these same slanderers of the king exhort him to lead them...
...nostalgic dreamer, arousing pity and empathy as he is confronted by each successive disaster, yet spurred on again and again by the enlightening force of hope. Forever chasing some distant ideal, following some foolish dream, Bip unabashedly exposes yearnings in ourselves which perhaps we try to hide behind a shield of cynicism. Marceau says of Bip, now more than a quarter of a century old, "I see him before me, fully matured, winking his eye at me near that ancient street lamp, no longer just an active witness, but a true personification of the great passion of men on earth...
There was an almost novelistic quality to the timing of Pompidou's demise. It came two days before the 25th anniversary of NATO, which Pompidou, like Charles de Gaulle before him, had used as both a military shield and a political foil. His death came shortly before the anniversary of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's grandiose call for a Year of Europe; that the year proved to be something less than what the Nixon Administration expected could be counted as a triumph for Gaullist foreign policy. There was no little irony in the fact that when...