Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Christian God, hopes against hope that Atahuallpa will be resurrected before his eyes. He is not. In Equus (1973), a boy blinds horses because he believes them to be gods who have witnessed his sinful transgressions. He duels with a psychoanalyst. Decrying his own dried-up rationality, the analyst envies the boy his pagan faith and passion. Sharing D.H. Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization...
...huge ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the bloody 1970 riots on the Baltic coast was planned for this week, and officials worried lest it get out of hand. If it did, Soviet troops stood on alert at Poland's borders. "The Poles," said a concerned analyst in Bonn, "seem to have a particular talent for courting national suicide." But the workers were not contemplating retreat. Said Union Leader Lech Walesa: "We are not cowards. We are not going back, ever...
...well-trained Polish army would almost certainly fight back, possibly alongside Polish workers. If defeated, the Poles would no doubt set up an opposition underground. "The core of it would probably be Solidarity because it is already organized and has nationally respected leadership," said a senior Foreign Ministry analyst in Bonn...
...Arab world is deeply fragmented as a result of the war between Iraq and Iran. The open support of Jordan and the tacit backing of Saudi Arabia and the gulf states for Syria's archenemy, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has left Syria feeling isolated and threatened. Some military analysts believe that one of Assad's motives in provoking the border confrontation was to blunt the possibility that Jordanian troops would be dispatched to Iraq to help in its stalemated struggle with Iran. As one U.S. analyst put it last week, "Assad wanted to remind everybody that Syria...
Since that plea was also endorsed by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the summit, a U.S. State Department analyst surmised that it could be a sign "that Iraq is getting desperate for some respite." In a concluding statement of his own, however, Saddam Hussein said that Iraq would never withdraw until Iran agreed to all its territorial claims. On the battlefronts, in fact, Iraq and Iran each reported extraordinary success, but both were actually still bogged down in positions they have held for weeks. The Iraqis claimed that since the war began Sept. 22 they have killed 5,600 Iranian...