Word: singlemindedness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last week the mill ground to a halt, probably for good. The old easygoing law was quietly repealed, largely because of pressure from Mexico's federal government, which for years has been embarrassed at the image Juárez gave the country. Because it was Mexico, no one was...
But still far from totally accepted. There are countless gradations between the two visions, and a genuine, tortured desire not to surrender to the extremes. We must urgently recognize that Middle America is a myth if it denotes a singleminded, Ag-newite bloc, the home or heartland of the Silent...
From Sixty to Sixteen-Plus. "In poetry," Auden has written, "all facts and all beliefs cease to be true or false and become interesting possibilities." It is his refusal to give up possibilities that makes singleminded, typecasting critics suspect him of essential frivolity. The fellow is forever tinkering with meter...