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This power, of course, can be inverted by tyranny: fascist, autocratic and corrupt governments often master the dark art of oppression's visual reinforcement.
Jake Townsend: Metaphors Made Real: On the Power of National Symbols Jake Townsend 2011
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The Nobel academy citation called him an author "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed room."
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Pinter "uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms," said the Swedish Academy's citation for the 10 million crown prize.
October 2005 2005
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Pinter's Nobel citation, declaring that he "uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms" suggested that the accolade wasn't just for the writer's revolutionary domestic dramas.
Silence Is Golden 2007
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 goes to Harold Pinter "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 goes to Harold Pinter "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"
October 2005 2005
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And fare-thee-well bold Esmond Kyan, though proud oppression's laws
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But for the discontented fool, who loves to be oppression's tool
Tullochgorum 1996
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But for the discontented fool, who loves to be oppression's tool
Tullochgorum (2) 1996
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We must find the will to unite around these opportunities of peace as previous generations have united against war's life-or-death threats, and oppression's fatal grip.
President Remarks To The Polish Sejm Warsaw ITY National Archives 1994
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