Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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You captured the current world crisis, and in particular the Lebanese situation, when you observed that "America has yet to find a way to use power discriminately and effectively." That is the heart of the issue. The same lesson needs to be learned by the U.S.S.R. The difference between the...
Charmed lives are probably more entertaining to lead than to read about. The ideal subject of a biography is someone who has succeeded at something, but at a pretty stiff price; the story of such a person inspires both envy ("I could not wage war on most of Europe") and...
As Brooks sees them, his movie's mother and daughter are actually sisters under the skin, connected not just by kinship but by subtle parallels of emotions and experience. Aurora appears initially to be no more than that familiar figure of satire, the American Mom as American Nightmare, all...
Theroux violates the unspoken rule in his third travel book, subtitled A Journey Around Great Britain. Here he loathes almost everything he sees and despises each new horror more than the one before. Since there is no reason to believe that he is wholly wrong in his judgments, he convinces...
Let's throw another issue into the brew. If we are so desperately concerned wit the social conditions in Central America, demanding that our military aid be converted to greater economic and humanitarian assistance, why are we silent regarding the wretched conditions of the impoverished in Lebanon, and they are...