Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...plan would eliminate the General Education program for a much wider distribution requirement, and abolish compulsory expository writing...
...superficial stylistic beauty and the undeniable gory reality of a massacre. Widerberg tells the story of a working class family engaged in the historic strike at Adalen, in the north of Sweden, where in 1931 troops fired on a peaceful demonstration and the deaths of five people precipitated a general strike that brought to power the Social Democrats, who have controlled the country ever since. The bloodshed dramatized conditions of inequality that already existed, but were obscured before and after by the sweet, hypnotic surfaces of everyday life...
...conception of what's happening during the massacre sequence, product of missed messages, delayed comprehensions. "The bastards are using real bullets," someone shouts, but the band keeps playing, the people keep marching, and afterwards everyone is sorry. With their anti-climatic attempts to assimilate still going on, the general strike is declared in far away Stockholm, and a mistaken historical clarity begins shaping the future...
...general feeling among Harvard Square merchants is that the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is prime time for bogus-bill passing. Many of them have gone through similar rashes of bad-bill passing before, at this time of year, although most merchants feel they could recognize a counterfeit bill by flaws in its size, color, feeling or detail...
...reprehensible; his self-centredness and irresponsibility would offend anyone of any class or generation. As types. these characters are all terribly stilted and mechanically directed; while we would normally accept actions which challenge initial conceptions of character, when Korty's characters diverge from type, they noticeably cut against a general narrative argument...