Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tractors that go unrepaired for lack of money, not just in the baby chicks killed because grain to feed them is too expensive. The criminal incompetence of the international capitalist class to run the world economy is destroying the productive agricultural infrastructure, guaranteeing the bankruptcy of small and medium size farmers, guaranteeing that the factories are unable to invest in new farm machinery and fertilizer production, guaranteeing the lack of research money for the development of new seed, new agricultural methods...
...Paris, Theodorakis, a lawyer's son, was accomplished enough to write a symphony that could pass as minor Shostakovich. In the years after World War II, he aligned himself with the Communist partisans fighting the Greek monarchy and drew his first jail term. He decided that his real medium was the laiki moussiki (serious pop) central to the everyday lives of the Greek working classes...
However extraordinary Sidewalk Sam might appear to the general public, it is the conventional art world--the art bureaucracy, as Sam calls it--which is most aware of how unconventional Sam really is. Concrete pavement, after all, is not your everyday medium. Neither are the wooden planks he works with in his East Cambridge studio strictly "accepted...
...medium through which the developed world views the Middle East conflict. Some of the oil producing countries have indicated previously that they have no incentive to increase their output of petroleum. Yesterday, the Organization of Petroleum Export Countries, which includes all oil producers and not only the Arabs, unilaterally raised the oil price by seventeen percent. Saudi Arabia has indicated that it will reduce its oil production in retaliation for United States support for Israel. The Arabs have been tiring of the large amounts of devalued dollars they were accumulating from oil sales, and the steps that they have...
...vision is a very personal one; he doesn't dwell on the medium, but goes past it almost to the point of a silent conversation with the reader. Merwin is one of the few poets who, by reaching into his own inner loneliness, can reach across his words to the aloneness that...