Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South Africa's heads-up policy to ward the changing realities of the continent stands in marked contrast to Rhodesia's ostrich-like pose. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs observed last week: "There is little concern about the ominous signs. As the odds mount against them, Rhodesians are eagerly participating in a contest to compose lyr ics for their newly adopted national an them. The tune, replacing God Save the Queen, is the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...railed angrily at the Establishment have been succeeded by caustic young playwrights who acidly mock the welfare state. Underlying that mockery is a sour nagging resentment of the present sorry state of England. Thus it is no unintended irony that The National Health is set in a hospital ward for the dying...
Lacombe, Lucien-which played at the New York Film Festival last week to considerable acclaim-is set in provincial France during the summer and fall of 1944, when Germany's defeat began to seem certain. Lucien (Pierre Blaise), still in his teens, works in a hospital ward. The cries and murmurs of pain from the wounded cause him to turn toward the window, to the summer sunlight. He sees a bird in a nearby tree, singing, and with a certain glee, kills it with his slingshot. It is almost a reflexive action, without real significance to Lucien...
Sixty used to be considered what Keats called the season of "mellow fruit-fulness." But Mr. Keep Fit, Jack La Lanne, whose name adorns 85 muscle salons across the U.S., declared: "Proper living can ward off the aging process...
...represents Eisenstein's effort to re-integrate himself with the Stalin regime after a long period of disfavor. Alexander Nevsky is in every sense a one-dimensional film. Its theme is patriotism, and its message, directed in no uncertain terms at Nazi Germany, is that Russia will ward off any attempt at conquest. The film takes place in 1242, when combined Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Alexander Nevsky, defeated the invading German force. Eisenstein uses these events in a less than subtle allegory about what would happen in the event of an attack by Hitler on the Soviet...