Word: utterance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bomb" while the Wall Street Journal rated it "one of the most important pieces of TV journalism ever, and spellbinding besides." Still, most sober observers of world affairs are not likely to fall under his spell. Example: Sovietologist Richard Lowenthal has sorrowfully expressed his amazement at Solzhenitsyn's "utter disaccord with the facts of recent international history." Lowenthal points out that not all defeats for the West, as for instance in Indochina, are caused by surrender to the Soviet Union-or China-but can be the result of local forces. Moreover, he feels it would be "criminally irresponsible...
...Stock's utter lack of conviction is rivalled by Kerry Konrad's slightly less futile attempt at Burleigh. While Burleigh's narrow-minded concentration on protecting the Protestant succession and his eagerness for Mary's death make him a less than sympathetic figure, he should be played with some semblance of lordly dignity; he may be wrong, but, after all, he is an English peer. Expressing his frustration as petulance, always raising his voice instead of varying his tone, Konrad's Burleigh never seems quite at home in the Elizabethan court...
...dictatorship that tramples on human rights," and recommended: "There is no other way for the Park regime but to accept responsibility by stepping down." The government's official answer was that the declaration was part of a plot "to throw our country into a state of utter social chaos in order to overthrow the government and take over...
...moment of utter mutual incomprehension between two cultures. The Japanese felt that their principal art was being looted from them, and they were right. Hundreds of ancient swords, including 42 documented National Treasures made between the 12th and 15th centuries, vanished as souvenirs and have never reappeared. The Americans thought they were guarding against insurgency, and they were wrong. The Nippon-tō-"art swords"-were ritual and aesthetic objects, the core symbols of Shintoism, and would not have been used in combat...
...connection between Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and the real thing is utter nonsense. I know...