Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead. I reckon." These words seem appropriate also: "They say they can cure any ailment, and they do seem to do it; but why should a patient come all the way here? Why shouldn't he do these things at home and save the money? No disease would stay with a person who treated it like that." Of course. Mark Twain had just spent two weeks in Marienbad...
...Nakuru, capital of the former white highlands, 400 farmers crowded the town hall to hear him, determined to base their decision to leave Kenya or to stay on what he had to tell them (in the past two years, 6,000 have left, but 60,000 remain). Kenyatta appealed to the whites to forgive and forget, to join hands with his three-month-old African government and prove that different racial groups can live harmoniously together...
When he finished, the white farmers roared Kenyatta's battle cry of "Harambee!", a Swahili expression meaning "Let's all push together-get up and go." Not all were won over. But most decided to stay in Kenya so long as Jomo Kenyatta continued saying and doing the right things. His speech, said Farmer Leader Lord Delamere, was a "unique and historic" event...
...Leopard. "If we want things to stay as they are, things have to change." The Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster) abruptly stops shaving and turns to stare in irritation at his favorite nephew (Alain Delon). Can Tancredi seriously mean to suggest that he, Salina of Sicily, should lick the boots of the new bourgeoisie? The prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon. But he is not a fool; he knows as well as Tancredi that in the spring of 1860 bourgeois boots are on the march from the Alps to Africa. Garibaldi...
...grand ball in Palermo, Tancredi's fiancée is introduced to Sicilian society. As the Prince waltzes with her, he smiles wistfully. He has done his duty, he has built a bridge to the future. His children will cross it, he will not. He will stay in the past, bound there by affection, by habit, by sloth, by congenital dislike of tomorrow, by the siren lure of a torrid, torpid land that makes its children long "voluptuously for death." As the film ends he kneels and, yearning upward to the morning star, prays passionately for death: "O faithful...