Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Audubon is a superbly sensuous poem, full of dawns "redder than meat," and chimney smoke that "bellies the ridgepole." The language is plain-grits as a folk song without being folksy. A be-ginning-of-the-world awe broods over the work: silence, solitude, finally the violence that ruptures both. Above the wilderness soar Audubon's birds, transcendent angels of life and death...
Raftery called the present helper category "an inequitable arrangement keeping people in a kind of subservient position without any hope of moving forward...
Then she started to pump me for information. I decided not to let her have any without a struggle...
...past year. The harsh new issues facing the University and the sharp divisions they created among the Faculty made it imperative for that body to begin groping for a new style of leadership-a style better equipped to recognize political realities to accept them, and to mediate them without endangering the essential scholarly functions of a university...
...come far from the frolics she and Lillian Gish gave Griffith's films of the earlier twenties. And Adolphe Menjou, as Satan, is the model of restraint. For him a grimace or devilish leer would be an unspeakable faux pas. But Griffith, far from leaving him a polished gentleman without depth of character, makes his slightest gestures personally significant. Menjou is eating dinner with Ricardo Cortez in the grandest of opulent restaurants. The conversation takes an odd tack. Menjou pivots his head slightly, and Griffith cuts away to a bevy of side-lit dancing girls, the floor show, advancing...