Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VOYAGE OF SILENCE. A deceptively simple story of a young Portuguese carpenter emigrating to Paris is given uncommon strength and stature by the compassionate observation of Director Christian de Chalonge...
...looks like its predecessor. "I think a lot of people were disappointed that we did not come up with something revolutionary," says McLaren, "but we never do anything completely different." Both cars, for example, have an airplane-type monocoque, or frameless chassis, to get maximum strength from minimum weight. Still, there are subtle yet important differences. While the Mark 6A weighed 1,520 Ibs., the new car weighs only 1,450 Ibs.-less than a Volkswagen. The weight-saving was mainly accomplished by completely eliminating the chassis behind the driver's seat; the car's Chevrolet engine (souped...
Quivering Wings. In the fierce wind at Djémila, he finds the natural renewal that defies the despair leading to suicide: "The violent bath of sun and wind drained me of all strength. I scarcely felt the quivering of wings inside me, life's complaint, the wea' rebellion of the mind. Soon, scattered to the four corners of the earth, self-forgetful and self-forgotten, I am the wind and within it, the columns and the archway, the flagstones warm to the touch, the pale mountains around the deserted city. And never have I felt so deeply...
...Wallace turned out to be a little smaller than had been expected a few weeks ago, but it is obvious that the Wallace movement has not died. Wallace's 13 per cent may not look like much now, but when one considers the phenomenal growth of anti-war voting strength in the last two years, it becomes clear that events can change the impossible to the possible in very short order. There is little reason to expect that President Nixon will be successful in combating the sources of the new and little-understood alienation of the American blue collar worker...
...main strength of the book is in its tying together of these white and black problems. Inserted between chapters on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, is a section on the white race and its heroes. "What has suddenly happened is that the white race has lost its heroes. Worse, its heroes have been revealed as villains and its greatest heroes as the arch-villains." Youths "recoil in shame from the spectacle of cowboys and pioneers--their heroic forefathers whose exploits filled earlier generations with pride--galloping across a movie screen shooting down Indians like Coke bottles...