Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back into your chair and watch the opening sequence of the new film, you'll relive the excitement of the old movie's climactic fight scene. Later in Rocky II, you'll feel those same chills as you realize you're going to see that same fight for the third time in two movies. They couldn't let a good fight end after 15 rounds, so you'll sit through 45. The third time around, you'll even see it in show-motion streams of sweat and blood...
...Naipaul, who is the superior writer, has more experience. He has produced 15 books since 1952, but his diversity in style is more remarkable than his productivity. V.S. Naipaul has mastered social satire, essays on development, historical accounts and pessimistic novels about racial conflict and independence in the Third world. Although writing about disparate societies, Naipaul displays an astute sociological ability to muster and link problems common to all former colonies...
...because he is from a developing nation himself, V.S. Naipaul has a perspective a Westerner cannot glean. Naipaul's perspective as an East Indian in a black nation sets him apart from other Third World writers. This gives him a curiously advantageous literary position--he is both a participant and observer in his society...
...effort to help Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, Oxfam-America, a non-profit organization that tries to improve conditions in third world countries, is sponsoring "Run Against Hunger" at Harvard on August 12 from...
...Third World War, Hackett...