Word: summed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board as Thailand's Director of Tourism to represent the government, along with the Minister of Finance and other prominent officials. Over the seven years and four months that General Chalermchai has served on the board, his remuneration has averaged less than $1,250 a year-a nominal sum for his invaluable advice and assistance...
...says a sympathetic lawyer who has been in and out of the case, "is that he sat on his duff right up until the last minute. In his blustering frontier way, he didn't figure anything could happen to a guy of his wealth over so small a sum owed." Now, in all likelihood, there isn't anyone for him to recover from any more. Primock is dead, and Sears has already successfully contended that it did not know of or endorse any of Primock's actions. Besides, Jackson no longer has any of the records...
Cubes & Guitars. The show, in sum, is a mirror of modern French sculp ture. The son of a poor Parisian worker, Laurens began his career, after stud ies with a decorative sculptor, in a rundown house on a dead end Montmartre street. The year was 1911. Cub ism was in full flower, and Georges Braque lived only a few doors away...
...that in Gog and Magog he is trying to make explicit the evil and good in man, a Manichaean notion that influenced Robert Louis Stevenson in writing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A more subtle Jungian notion is that Gog (i.e., man) is not only himself but also the sum of the past of the whole race. The naked amnesiac on the shores of Scotland must relive the whole of history before he can find the structure of his own soul. History being what it is, this is a bleak and troubling thought...
That is the theme of Griffin's book -but not its sum total. The author has endowed his characters with enough depth, human good and human frailties so that neither victor nor vanquished monopolizes virtue. One cannot, even during the submariners' trial, condone their atrocity. But, Griffin wonders, was the crime any greater for the U-boat officers than for the pilots who bombed Dresden or the German scientists who built the buzz bombs that terrified London? And if so, why? Because the lifeboat victims were visible to the killer and therefore more human than the unseen victims...