Word: voided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exquisite precision, records the pain of existence. "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops." So says Pozzo, the slavedriver, the pig, the spokesman for a decaying, overburdened, but strangely charming establishment. "There is no lack of void," says Estragon, cap-turing in his words the twentiethcentury's ironic understanding of time and space. And the agony, the anomic, the anxiety, the sheer numbing ignorance of existence is what impassions Vladimir's shriek to an unhearing universe...
...world's worst inflation. The erstwhile "President for Life" viewed himself as a dedicated revolutionary and nationalist. But his flaming oratory and grandiose promises never produced a better life for his countrymen, nor any voice for them in his "guided democracy." Meaningless slogans and acronyms echoed in the void. Sukarno's big movement on the world stage was the 1955 Bandung Conference of Nonaligned Nations, after which he moved with aplomb in Washington, Moscow or Peking. He spouted Lincoln as easily as Lenin...
Madness and violence are seen as the tragic lengths individuals and societies will resort to in order to prevent the obliteration of their identities or collective memories. The great fear is that of being stranded in a void, of being so alone that one's very existence is in doubt. As Miss Frame expresses it in the poetry that threads the novel: "It is the company of weather I crave in this weatherless room/the thermometer reads me only." In the Waipori of the future, the problem of establishing existence would be even more terrifying. If a plastic tree topples...
...Christians to be as immutable as the Creator himself. Yet this week, with the long-heralded publication of the complete New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge University Presses; $9.95), comes a change: "In the beginning of creation, when God made heaven and earth, the earth was without form and void...
...possible that Tripp will not return at unlimited next year, and if he does not there are no freshmen or returning lettermen to till the void...