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Word: violent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bereft of these comic scenes, the Leverett show was free to be a brief but potent spectacle of violent tragedy. Instead the performers seen to feel they have to make up for the comedy lost when the subplot was cut. In the process they dilute the effectiveness of the best melodramatic scenes...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Blood Without Guts | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

Challenor discussed King's belief in non-violent methods, but said, "As we look at South Africa we may be facing a situation where non-violence may no longer be possible." She added, "Terrorism is the new method of charge, replacing non-violence...

Author: By Karyn E. Esielonis, | Title: Lecturer Highlights U.S. Foreign Policy, African Problems | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

Chomsky added that the object of the CIAFI meeting was not to advocate violent revolution in America against the Shah, but to inform Americans about the situation in Iran and to put pressure on the U.S. government to end American financial and military assistance to Iran...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Protesters Disrupt Discussion on Iran | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

...back to Moscow so he can get the medical care he needs." Other U.N. officials speculated that Shevchenko had fallen in love with an American woman-a theory that gained credence when it was learned that his wife, Lengina, 48, had flown home two weeks ago, apparently after a violent quarrel with her husband. She took their teen-age daughter, Anna, with her and joined the couple's son, Gennadi, 25, an employee of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Defection of an Apparatchik | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Since then he has seen quite a few changes and made fine, weird, wired rock-'n'-roll music out of all of them, no matter how bizarre or diverse-high school memories and heroin jags, sweet romances and violent one-night stands, soirées with Warhol's underground crew and cruises through the lowlife. There has been one constant throughout. That gun is still drawn, and likely loaded. Danger is what Lou Reed's music has always been about. And that makes it classic, vital rock 'n' roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lou Reed's Nightshade Carnival | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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