Word: extention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group can give the group members a certain education and can also develop its own work methods to a certain extent...
...streets, but no matter-- the streets themselves have changed. An intellectually subtle celebration of authenticity, group solidarity, and political direct action has left in its wake (perhaps prepared the way for) a kind of mindless incivility, a pervasive ruthlessness noted by Joan Didion when she observed "the extent to which the toleration of small irritations is no longer a trait much admired in America, the extent to which nonexistent frustration threshold is seen not as psychopathic but as a 'right.' Kill, maim, rape--the reason is always the same: somebody is 'hassling...
Phillips [snorting]: It was a concocted notion, a political notion invented by the CP for its own purposes. It was primarily a political weapon, and existed to the extent that writers believed it existed. No, I think it had only a small impact--if any--on later American literature. I think James T. Farrell and John Dos Passos produced the best fiction during those years, but I wouldn't particularly call it "proletarian...