Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TWIN THEMES of isolation and imprisonment pervade the work of American women writers, whose art pulses with the strain of creating in a culture that relentlessly associates creativity with maleness. "The soul selects her own society, then shuts the door," begins one of Emily Dickinson's best-known poems. Dickinson's poetry reflects her unique physical, as well as spiritual, confinement; a life-long recluse, she shut herself up in her father's house and composed taut verses proclaiming the isolation of the human soul...
...Bangaban-dhu (friend of Bengal). But last August Mujib and his family were massacred by the "seven majors," a group of young officers who staged a brutal lightning coup against Mujib's increasingly corrupt and autocratic regime. Lacking broad popular support, the young officers ever since have faced twin dangers: revenge by Mujib's outraged supporters or a reassertion of authority by the older generals they elbowed aside during the coup...
...picture, the first from another planet's surface, the mother ship swung into orbit around Venus to become its first satellite (Venus has no known natural moons) and continued to transmit information on its environment. At week's end, Moscow announced that Venera 10 had repeated its twin's triumph...
...twin setbacks sent Big Mac bond prices plunging as low as 75? on the dollar. Even worse, investors' lack of confidence spread to state securities that had no connection with the city's crisis. The state's housing finance agency was unable to refinance $69 million worth of securities and warned that it might have to default and stop work at dozens of housing, hospital and nursing-home construction projects. The city again seemed headed for default-this time on Oct. 17, when $450 million in debts came due-and officials feared that the state might...
Until the twin attempts on Ford, some analysts argued that only certain kinds of Presidents attracted assassins, unlocking the combination of mental imbalances that turns a misfit into a maniac. Leaders who were charismatic and activist like the Kennedy brothers, the Roosevelts, Jackson and Lincoln. And it is notable?and paradoxical?that there were no attempts on the lives of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, who were not well-liked as Presidents and came to arouse venomous passions in large parts of the population. Chicago Psychiatrist David Rothstein thinks that perhaps likable Presidents may be more vulnerable to attack, since...