Word: dis
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Chunqiao, Literary Critic Yao Wenyuan and cotton-mill Party Functionary Wang Hongwen) assumed power in the mid-1960s and instituted a reign of terror in which thousands of writers, artists and scientists were so relentlessly persecuted that many died or committed suicide. Though the gang members were arrested and dis graced four years ago, the announcement that they would go on trial for then-crimes came only last month. The trial is reportedly set to open as early as this week...
...shaky. If a bit of spiritualist theater in a darkened room helped to shore up the convictions of her fellow Theosophists, where was the harm? It was charlatanism in the highest cause of all, she felt, and thus when one of her stunts went wrong, or when a dis gruntled confederate published letters from her, giving detailed instructions for illusions, H.P.B. was unembarrassed...
...medals in a dozen Olympics, and the brilliantly garbed Chinese players have discovered what may be a new art form - the somersault. They do fast flip-flops and they do slow ones; they can do almost any thing with their bodies, defying both gravity and anatomy. A more gorgeous dis play of costumes and gymnastics has probably never before been presented onstage...
...teenager, Borg was pressured by a succession of well-meaning coaches to alter his game. One exception was Lennart Bergelin, appointed Sweden's Davis Cup captain in 1970 and charged with dis covering and developing young players...
Rogin has arranged his novel as a dis orderly meditation wandering over six years of Albert's life. Tragedy (his step son's death by drowning) blows by with a sort of offhanded inevitability. The Dynamo moves from New Canaan to Fair Haven. But the action is entirely within the well-furnished brain of antic and sorrowing Albert. One day he tells his psychiatrist: "You know, Tolstoy said that playing the accordion diverts men from realizing the falsity of their goals." Replies Dr. Nederlander: "You want me to turn on the Yankee game...