Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sticking point is Nasser's insistence on a single political party for the whole U.A.R., modeled on his own Arab Socialist Union in Egypt. Since this would swallow up and probably destroy the Baath movement, Baathists have held out for a looser, more representative system, including the Baath-created National Front in Iraq, and the Baathist-Nasserite Unionist Front in Syria. In the end, Nasser would probably have his way on this, as on other limitations to political democracy. A Cairo spokesman explained, in a phase definitely not borrowed from U.S. democracy, that "freedom will be guaranteed...
...collective farm as spiritually rich and financially rewarding. The kolkhoz manager is always a cross between Paul Bunyan and Luther Burbank, and his sterling example inspires glorious acts of self-sacrifice from the lowliest peasant. Though foreigners laugh off the myth as nonsense, millions of Russians are asked to swallow it. Hence the shocked incredulity of Russians who picked up the Leningrad literary monthly, Neva. There, in a short story by Fedor Abramov, was a startling indictment of the apathy, discontent and frustrating failure of collective farm life that still exists after more than four decades of Soviet rule...
...prostitute is the wrong kind of funny for this play. Eric Bentley's translation is fluently colloquial if occasionally a shade too matter-of-fact for a playwright who was always a poet. Despite these shortcomings, playgoers jaded on dramatic cream puffs ought to seize the chance to swallow intellectual fire...
Reston might have added, but they are under no compulsion to swallow everything that goes along with...
...shore of San Francisco Bay. Says Remick, who will ultimately be consumed by alcohol, "I like the water--not up close where it's all dirty, but farther out where it's clean. Sometimes, though, it frightens me. I think, a sea monster will rise up and swallow me." In another, Lemmon is spraying Remick's apartment with roach killer. "You'll just get them excited," she objects, and sure enough out rush dozens of her fellow apartment dwellers to protest the action...