Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there has been a long history of laymen trying to overturn what they see as injustice wrought by police, lawyers and judges. Undoing the law's due process is an enormously difficult task. But last week two such efforts by laymen were gathering momentum and one was finally triumphant...
...even for seasoned Drabble lovers, her seventh and latest novel, The Realms of Gold, is extraordinary--as extraordinary as its heroine, Frances Wingate. Frances is a famous archaeologist in her mid-thirties, triumphant in everything she turns to, whether it be discovering ancient cities, delivering lectures, raising kids or giving dinner parties. When the book opens, she has recently broken off an affair with her lover of seven years, Karel Schmidt, although she still carries his false teeth with her on lecture tours, along with photographs of her four children...
...Opposition Leader Robert Muldoon wanted to know "why he is so unacceptable to many people, a quick glance in any mirror would give him the answer." Perhaps Rowling should have looked at the mirror himself. Last week, as he prepared to hand over power to Muldoon's triumphant New Zealand National Party, the outgoing Prime Minister allowed that he felt as though he had "been run over by a bus." In an upset, the conservative Nationalists won a 19-seat majority in the 87-member Parliament, almost matching Labor's sweep in 1972, when it ousted the National...
...have their innocence dispelled and their artistic dreams realized. Along the way, however, they must pay a price in the coinage of musical comedy by exchanging cute quips with picturesque minor characters, whirling across the stage in elaborately choreographed dance numbers and belting out songs of unrequited and triumphant love...
...book also contains some tense, dramatic episodes, for instance, how Ali came to throw his gold medal into the Ohio River. He had been refused a hamburger in a whites only restaurant, shortly after his triumphant homecoming to Louisville, and then was attacked by a band of Naziinsignia-bearing motorcycle hoods who demanded that Ali give them the medal. Ali fought them off, but the whole experience finally sealed his disillusionment with white America...