Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange that you should refer to South Africa's remaining "curiously peaceful." Why curiously? Could it perhaps be that there is not yet that huge groundswell of dissatisfaction that leads to real revolution? Certainly there is a revolution here today, but it is not what the rest of the world thinks. It is a revolution in the minds of men, and especially in the minds and hearts of Afrikaners...
...reads, on page 120, "Carter, The President of the United States, and Mrs. Jimmy." The British Broadcasting Corp. had a policy meeting on the Jimmy issue. In broadcasting, particularly British broadcasting, Christian names stand like the Tower of London. But the BBC retreated. Whenever possible, British newscasters refer to President Carter. But now and then they must say the nickname, and when they do, according to an American-language expert just back from London, Barnard's Professor Richard Norman, they look uncomfortable...
...People in the region of the upper Yukon refer to their part of Alaska as 'the country' "McPhee explains at the start of the final section, which shares the book's title. "A stranger appearing among them is said to have 'come into the country."' The fact is, almost every white person in the country has been such a stranger at one time or another. In Eagle (population 100), the town McPhee focuses on in the last half of the book, you can count on one hand the adults who are native born. The rest have arrived at some point...
This sickness is increasingly mirrored in our culture, our philosophy, our attitude toward reality. It is no accident that so many ordinary people refer to the world as a 'madhouse' or that the theme of insanity has recently become a staple in literature, art, drama and film...Millions sense the pathology that pervades the air, but fail to understand its roots. These roots lie not in this or that political doctrine, still less in some mystical core of despair or isolation presumed to inhere in the 'human condition.' Nor do they lie in science, technology, or legitimate demands for social...
...urging of her psychiatrist, Sexton began to write verse. What started as therapy quickly became a craft, a vocation and a career. Her letters frequently refer to poetry as her life saver, but elsewhere she sees her work as appalling in its blunt candor. "Creative people must not avoid the pain that they get dealt," she writes an editor. "I say to myself, sometimes repeatedly 'I've got to get the hell out of this hurt' ... But no. Hurt must be examined like a plague...