Word: surrounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ayub added: "The country's economic system is paralyzed. Every problem is now being solved in the streets. Mobs surround any place they like and force acceptance of whatever they like. There is nobody left to raise a righteous voice." Accordingly, the President declared, there was no alternative but for the army's chief of staff, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, to assume all the powers of government...
...least four regular and so far uncommitted Communist divisions-most of the week's ground probes were carried out by local forces and guerrillas-were reported on the move in III Corps, the vital eleven provinces that surround Saigon. An attempt at the capital itself was not ruled out, and the allies responded by tightening defensive cordons around the city, by now a veritable fortress...
...exhibition gallery is still higher, almost hidden. Two low-ceilinged spaces, lit even to the corners, surround the Boston Now exhibition by young Boston artists. Few of the thirty pieces of painting and sculpture are even three old. Hyman Bloom's mysterious, Dorerlike forest in Charcoal, done by the dean of Boston artists in 1963, is remote and antique...
...Count's living theatre works just fine until the inevitable ingenue (Ellen Endicott-Jones) upsets all the artificial relationships. Anouilh never has time to exploit The Rehearsal's central conceit for he soon finds himself struggling to protect his ingenue from the cynics that surround her. Hero, the Count's alcoholic friend, takes over and the play sloshes forward lugubriously. Humbert Allen Astredo delineates his drunkenness with sensitivity, but there's just so much Anouilh packed into his long monologues, that he can't help but become tiresome...
This was another thought that he came to see through. When he returned to Cambridge, he started for the first time to listen to all of the words that flew at him, and he began to see that in his world of the mind only words have meaning: people surround themselves with words, people vomit words, people become words, and can be nothing else...