Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last April, still determined to be independent, Sandy and Donna Sue rented an apartment at Stonehead Manor. The seedy building was close to Sandy's classes, bookshops, other student hang outs. But only a day later, her parents picked her up after work and forced her to return home. During the next month, she often stopped to have coffee with Donna Sue on her way to school, and during that time she got to know Scott Kabran, a former high school musician and poet with shoulder-length red hair...
Mishima was an impassioned romantic whose real despair at his country's course commingled like sacrificial blood with his own deep need to return to an earlier and, in his view, much nobler Japan. Many critics in Japan felt that he passed the peak of his career as a writer-Sun and Steel, an autobiographical and philosophical book published this year, was not very favorably received-and that he feared reaching old age in obscurity. Said Critic Yamamoto: "He was already 45. After 50, he couldn't have achieved such beauty in his manner of death...
Pikes and Swords. Soon there came a far more serious disaster-the Nazi invasion of June 22, 1941. At first, Soviet commanders were ordered not to return the German artillery fire. Says Khrushchev: "Stalin was so afraid of war that he convinced himself that Hitler would keep his word and wouldn't attack...
...seems likely that the Soviet authorities either had denied him a visa for Sweden or had refused to guarantee that he could return home after the ceremony. In spite of the ban on his writings and the abuse poured on him in Russia, friends in Moscow report that Solzhenitsyn considers it "unthinkable" that he could live or work anywhere in the world except in his beloved country...
...health of the Pope holds up, the heavy pace will continue: Western Samoa, via Pago Pago, on Sunday; Australia on Monday; Djakarta Thursday; Hong Kong Friday morning, and Colombo, Ceylon, Friday evening on the way back to Rome. What does he hope to accomplish in return for such a grueling schedule? "It will stimulate missionary activity and broaden understanding with other religions in the service of progress and peace," he said in his farewell speech in Rome. But more than ever before, various aspects of the Pope's traveling plans have been criticized by the press and even...