Word: takings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience is left with little hope that Boseman's and Lena's lives, or, for that matter, that the lives of the oppressed South Africans they represent, will ever improve. It can take comfort only from having been witness to an intelligent, powerful testimony--and for having shared a little of the sorrow...
...instance, in The Brides' Tragedy, Beddoes' first successful work, "most characters were either dead or in search of death," Ashbery said. The characters are surrounded by murders, yet there are no true motives for the murders that take place, he added...
...pages mirror my unsettled feeling. On one hand, we can read warnings from academics, hard-line Cold Warriors and eternal pessimists about how the demise of polarity could take us back to a Bismarckian Europe. But much more common, at least until the dust settles, are the jubilations over the domino theory in reverse. Every-where we're reminded what an exciting time it is to be alive...
...meeting was delayed until today, then tomorrow, while legislators from the alliance tried to persuade its main leader, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, to take the job. Singh has repeatedly said he does not want...
...actually take a firm stand for what students want: the ability to choose where they will spend the next three years. The first-year class expected the status quo housing policy when it matriculated this fall, not some compromise plan that limits choice...