Word: singed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President would sit still for such conditions is another question. In an interview at week's end, Mobutu declared: "We can accept aid but we cannot accept the involvement of other countries in our internal affairs. I don't want to know how prisoners are treated in Sing Sing. Democracy in Zaïre does not mean what it does hi France or the United States." Chances are, though, that the Western powers at this week's Brussels meeting would make him an offer he could not refuse...
...Young women with pointed breasts, sing of sap, sing of springtime." The poet is Senegal's longtime President Léopold Senghor, 71, who has written seven books of verse. In Manhattan to address the U.N. special session on disarmament, Senghor also read some of his poems to 700 listeners at a local community center. "My basic themes," he explained, "are black Africa, brotherhood in suffering, death and, very naturally, love, with emphasis on woman, both black and white." For his next book, Senghor plans a collection of poetic elegies, including one on Martin Luther King...
Giovanna is sitting in a car outside her father's villa in the Via dei Villini. She is eating a pizza. Suddenly a van appears and three masked men jump out, seize Giovanna and bundle her off before she has time to sing one note. The villains bring her to a hiding place not far from her home. The police, in search of Aldo Moro, ring the kidnapers' doorbell on two occasions. When no one answers they go away. A few days later, the villains wrap up their captive in a plastic bag and drive to a more remote hideout...
Some weeks later, the duke goes to Maurizio's tobacco shop to deliver 800 million lire ($925,000) in ransom. Soon Giovanna is released and reunited with her parents. They sing the triumphant trio Alfin ci ritroviam! (At last we are reunited!). The Chorus then sings the plaintive Benche liberata sia, Daniel ha rapito il suo cuore ribelle (Though freed is she, Daniel has kidnaped her rebellious heart). The police raid Maurizio's apartment, and he is carted...
...such deceitfulness and suavity"). John Betjeman, England's reigning poet laureate, displays a light touch at vers de société; Robert Graves is captured in several nonmythic moods. A couple of songs by Nöel Coward read less jauntily than they sing. Auden the anthologist did not let Auden the splendid comic poet into his book. Amis generously corrects this blunder...