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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although she talks about alienation from society and self caused by apartheid, Gordimer scorns an empty, abstract ideal of relevance. "Artists shouldn't talk about apartheid--they have to go deeper," she snorts. The writer can make others feel, and the emotional depth necessary to convey such experience comes from a writer's internal commitment, she says. "Commitment takes over from within--it's the point at which the inner and outer world fuse." Commitment is the process of making moral decisions on grounds frustratingly ambiguous and clouded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artists' Commitment | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...this be? A new city political organization last week endorsed a slate of candidates simply because they would help "to depolarize" a disagreeable city council. Organizers of the new effort, Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC), said last week that members of the current council "can't even talk to each other...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Cambridge: Business As Usual | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...grunt in novelist-talk means, "I just got shot in the stomach," or "I hope you got a big advance from the publisher...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

Liddy read him the sentence. After a long silence, Colby grunted. A grunt in CIA-talk means, "I just caught a slug in the gut," or "Sounds like you're novel's coming along nicely...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

Furthermore, a willingness by the U.S. to talk to the PLO would provide a much-needed assurance to Third World countries that the U.S. is indeed sensitive to the problems and aspirations of nonwestern nations. Such a move would also improve America's standing among the Arab nations, all of which recognize the PLO. Refusing even to listen to the Palestinians can only aggravate the petroleum exporting countries...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Giving the PLO the A-OK | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

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