Word: sway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rival Roses warred for Sway-For Sway, but named the name of Right; And Passion, scorning pain and death, Lent sacred fervor to the fight...
...easy enough in these depression days to find space in the building; at last count, 98 flats were vacant. High rents ($190 for a studio apartment, $750 for one with four bedrooms) exclude many would-be Hancockers. So does the sway factor. Big John is jacketed by steel girders that form a series of five giant Xs on each side. This is intended to provide extra support against the chilling winds that boom in from Lake Michigan. Despite the Xs, however, Big John swings: McElhatton claims that during one recent windstorm, with gusts of up to 75 m.p.h., there were...
...implacable enemies. You can help to maintain and replenish the precious reserves of tolerance, if only with a quiet word here, a small action there. That may seem desperately inadequate against the fanaticism of both left and right, but the sum of many such words and actions may eventually sway the balance between reason and unreason. You can, above all, help redefine the meaning of American democracy, as it has been redefined in every generation since the founding. America is involved in an experiment with meaning for all the world: to discover whether it is possible to have a technological...
...happen in the same way and produce the same impression as events of everyday life. He is the antithesis of baroque, while the famous royal style of Louis XIV is baroque itself. Baroque elevated to the level of classicism. Dramaturgy, glorifying in each new detail it brings under its sway...
...aesthetics too ashamed to show its face in discussions of the novel has long held sway in theories of the cinema. Writers like Kracauer and Bazin have elaborated value systems whose central equation comes whole from the nineteenth-century bourgeois novel tradition. Godard fights alone the arts' last battle against realistic representation...