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Word: uttered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turns out, that hypothesis was mostly hyperbole, the outgrowth, perhaps, of fantasies spun by helpless Russians who in fact could scarcely utter a whisper against the system of mass police terror. Gulag HI marks a judicious turnabout: "The Communist regime has not been overthrown in sixty years, not because there has not been any struggle against it from inside, not because people docilely surrendered to it, but because it is inhumanly strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Escapes from the Gulag | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...deny overzealousness, claiming that they are merely working under a program that has matured and is finally up to speed. Says Deputy Administrator Barbara Blum: "Recall is not a pleasant word. But as long as polluting cars continue threatening public health, recall is word upon." EPA will continue to utter and act upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AMC's Almost Total Recall | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

What is difficult to understand is the film's utter lack of moral insight. One suspects that Stallone kept hoping to turn his labor leader into another Rocky, for, although his hero keeps trafficking with gangsters and tolerates much graft among his fellow unionists, he never gets upset about it because he 1) never takes anything for himself, and 2) insists that wretched means justify his ends: a strong union that enables its members finally to enjoy the pleasures of owning their very own campers, motorboats and other ecologically unsound objects. An actor, or writer, of parts might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: J.U.N.K. | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Classical Indian music is connected deeply with the Hindu religion in which it was born. According to legend, several yogis created the music 4000 years ago. They devised a musical system whereby each note symbolized a feeling and part of the body. The music's purpose was utter self-realization, to be one with...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Sound is God | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...DeVore here, and only DeVore. And Irven DeVore did his graduate work in social anthropology at what was (and maybe still is) the leading intellectual center in the United States: University of Chicago. DeVore has studied in depth the disciplines of psychology and social and cultural anthropology and could utter in five minutes more knowledge on subjects in these "human" fields than Mr. Emmerich might be able to come up with in five hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Encore, Encore | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

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