Word: traumas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great detail, the show is a dramatic reminder of how vital a contribution Dada and surrealism made to the modernist imagination. No painting or poetry had been so resolutely and bitterly antiauthoritarian. Dada was the child of trauma; the first World War, that cultural chasm, had revealed - in the sheer incapacity of words to convey its degree of lethal absurdity - the extent to which language itself was owned by the officer classes of Europe...
...direct role in an emergency government that would deal with Italy's mounting economic, labor and law-and-order problems. The Christian Democrats' dilemma: find a compromise that would give the Communists new power in governing Italy, however that role might be disguised, or face the trauma of another early national election that would further polarize the country...
...find any new modus vivendi after Andreotti's expected resignation, the only option is early elections. The prospect, risky as it might be, did not bother many Christian Democrats as much as the step-by-inexorable-step Communist advance on power. But elections would doubtless be a trauma that neither Communist nor Christian Democrat would savor right away, and there are likely to be weeks of painful maneuvering and countermaneu-vering before they are willing to face that drastic ultimate step. In the meantime, the violent voices resounding through the streets of Italy can be counted...
Neil Simon has established a precedent in this area by saying that his new play is autobiographical, that it is, in effect, about the trauma he experienced at the death of his first wife and the rage over that loss, which he callously inflicted on his second wife even though she made him supremely happy...
Watergate...was an offense against our system of law. But a system of law is flawed if it throws out too many babies with the bathwater. This happened in Watergate. In order to pursue the scandal to its furthest reaches, the country was put through a trauma that came close to wrecking its economy and destroying the most hopeful initiatives toward peace of the past quarter century...