Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean to imply that this is a flawless work. There is, near the end of Act II, one abrupt and unmotivated shift in Pizarro's attitude that Shaffer failed to validate (Prescott didn't have the answer either). Also the Narrator can't seem to make up his mind whether the Spanish forces numbered...
...long term, the shift in Communist tactics shed a hopeful light on the war. As one senior U.S. officer said last week: "If you put them all together, they spell 'We've got to do it' for the Communists." That, as any soldier knows, can lead to dangerous risk-taking...
...finally pays dearly for her indifference. She is obviously much more interested in the sights and sounds on both sides of the Mandelbaum Gate, which separates Israel and Jordan, than she is in her characters, and soon the reader discovers that he is too. Worse still, in order to shift them around, Novelist Spark resorts to a series of involved intrigues and page after page of gentle nattering. For a writer whose prose is generally among the most direct and polished in the business, this must have been a chore. For the reader, it is deadly...
Schlesinger led what he called in his last work "the shift from 'drum and trumpet history' to 'the history of culture, the real history of men and women.'" In the book, In Retrospect: the History of a Historian, he defined social history as an effort to "grasp and depict both the inner and outer life of society and to integrate...
What galls the Gauls, of course, is the recent triumph of English. Time was when French was the tongue of "international"-meaning Continental-diplomacy. The 20th century's two world wars, however, helped shift international politics to a global arena, and the emergence since of dozens of independent powers in Asia and Africa has completed the process. French is still popular within the purlieus staked out by France's masterful 17th century diplomat, Cardinal Richelieu; it is used in Common Market areas * and is popular among Eastern European emissaries...