Word: unravelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unravel this skein of spies and spying, Hagen interviewed many of his prin-cioals-including General Gehlen and Otto John-collecting much personal information never before known. His book brings the story of cold war espionage up to date. But the struggle goes on. No end game is yet in sight. Meanwhile, The Secret War for Europe makes an absorbing spy watcher's guide and rule book for espionage-chess...
...frontier environment, it was greeted with warm applause, then critically torn to shreds. Yes, America had developed its own brand of democracy the critics agree; but, no, the "frontier" thesis was not an accurate analysis of its growth. Since that time no single work has appeared to unravel the somewhat mysterious evolution of American democracy...
...Carl Ruggles has had a writer's block that has stretched out for nearly all of his 92 years. He toiled for ages on a single work. Writing with crayons on brown wrapping paper, he would trace out his python-long melodies, then weave dissonance into dissonance, then unravel the whole thing and start again. His long opera The Sunken Bell (1923) occupied his time for 13 years. And just when it was near completion, Ruggles threw the score aside in a furious fit of dissatisfaction and abandoned it forever. That helps to explain why he has produced only...
...with Kingly oratory. Even such hardcore militants as Harlem Mau Mau Leader Charles 37X Kenyatta and Los Angeles' Ron Karenga, the shaven-skulled boss of "US," manned sound trucks and passed resolutions calling for calm. Yet in the unhappy racial climate of the U.S. today, that forbearance could unravel with calamitous speed...
...argues that his version of the ark is evidence that, for all of today's demythologizing, the Bible has a basis in fact. "I be lieve," says he, "that the Bible is a true account of what actually happened. It is up to us to unravel its secrets...