Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears that Nixon will ask Congress for no money at all for the aid-to-institutions part of the new law. Some older programs-such as funds for college libraries-may disappear entirely...
...volumes are left unread. It is impossible to read Proust now without a thorough deliberation beforehand on what this novel represents. In our post-historical epoch, when the world threatens to become indecipherable, when the sheer velocity of time speeds up to such an extent that entire landscapes disappear in a season, and when jet travel no longer seems a violation of natural law, these two thousand pages require a virtual suspension of existence in order to be read. Kafka's observation that it should take a lifetime to travel from one village to another implies a universe in which...
...Talmud with his 75-year-old son and dies one Friday night when he falls asleep and sets fire to himself. Kotlowitz's best creations are the Pilchik sisters, a pair of earthy, lively, possibly stupid originals from Odessa who try to convert Mendel to socialism. They disappear into the larger historical drama of the October Revolution with an over-the-shoulder verdict that Mendel "is not a serious...
...common suggestion for educational reform is that grading, being inherently unfair and restrictive, ought to be abolished entirely. Students are supposed to be nervous and cowed when faced with a teacher who has the power to mar their college record. Spontaneity and cheerful effort disappear, to be replaced by rote memorization and dreary cramming, or so the argument goes. The most ambitious of the critics have even managed, in good Marxian fashion, to link the dog-eat-dog competition for grades with the ruthless struggles in America's business world...
...followers questioned the dictator about his health. Before Perón could reply, a zealous aide shouted, "We'll have Perón for a hundred years!" Added el Líder himself: "You'll have Perón for five thousand years, for even though I disappear, my doctrine will continue...