Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-congratulation has been the self-interested nature of the Western diplomatic role: the five NATO powers who attempted to act as honest brokers between SWAPO and Pretoria stand to gain the most by securing a peaceful transition to independence. These countries' corporations mine and market the vast stores of precious minerals in Namibia. And for 12 years, these countries, led by the U.S., did the most to undercut U.N. efforts to loosen South Africa's stranglehold over Namibia...
...exceedingly transparent front it was too. The village du livre, a vast tent that is the traditional showcase for Marxist authors' latest books, was barely large enough to contain the hubbub of dissent and debate that has raged through the party since last spring's electoral disaster. The brooding began in April, when Communist Secretary-General Georges Marchais came under widespread attack in party ranks as the cause of the disaster. Critics charged that party leaders' autocratic exercise of "democratic centralism"-the party's code word for unquestioned rule from the top-had provoked the split...
...balcony of her room, Janey Cray, the grandmother, the truck driver, the die-hard Elvis fan, looked out over the vast, dark expanse of Memphis. Then she mixed another drink, and settled back into her chair...
...course, the vast majority of middle-class whites vigorously rejected the validity of all the tenents of the MOVE ideology. The blacks, however, were much more receptive--that is why 300 of them hurled bricks at the police shortly after the shoot-out. The reasons, again, go deeper than simply skin color. Whites can hardly be expected to accept social criticism as readily as blacks, who have long borne the onus of American capitalism. It logically follows that whites would therefore disagree more fervently with a group such as MOVE when the group points an accusing finger at the laws...
...between 1850 to 1950, did only eleven black writers publish more than two novels? Why don't more poor people write? In the first place, Olsen contends, the most fundamental prerequisite for sustained, flourishing productivity, "the even flow of daily life made easy and noiseless," is a luxury the vast majority cannot afford. For mothers whose lives are "distraction, not meditation... interruption, not continuity' spasmodic, not constant toil," the long peaceful hours when the mind can rove and wander, and the writer can then bring his mind's meanderings to paper, those hours simply do not exist. For the poor...