Complete with a word formed from those in the list.

John Lennon

Lennon, if he is a symbol of anything, is a symbol of (01) .......... , of play. He believed you could change the world. If you made the right gesture, a (02) .......... might take place. His life has become a myth, and high claims are made for him. He said that the Beatles were better known than Jesus Christ, which seemed to Christian (03) .......... a (04) .......... and (05) .......... thing to say, but he was probably right. The (06) .......... thing is that, by his violent death, he seems himself to have been elevated from musician, from supreme exponent of rock and roll, to the rank of prophet, shaman, myth. His wife, Yoko Ono, still serves as the (07) .......... of the myth, the keeper of the relics. She says: "He certainly wasn't a person who kowtowed or tried to preserve himself by shutting up. It's a very precious thing, I think, very (08).......... : this man who said it in a way for all of us. People identified with him because he said the truth, especially the truth they could not say."

01. CHILD .......................

02. TRANSFORM ......................

03. CHURCH ......................

04. SENSE ......................

05. RESPONSIBLE ......................

06. IRONY ......................

07. MAID ......................

08. COURAGE ......................

Northern Ireland

For thirty years Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, was divided, torn by (09) .......... riots, blasted by car bombs, patrolled by armoured cars. A whole (10) .......... grew up in the city knowing nothing else but what the Irish (11) .......... call "the troubles". The place suffered not only from violence, but from poverty, low (12) .........., lack of incentive, lack of a future.

The young complained of (13) .......... by the police and security forces. But the (14) .......... by terrorists, Catholic or Protestant, could be much worse. The example is given of one 15-year-old Catholic boy with 85 offences behind him. He fled from Northern Ireland after being told that the IRA was waiting at his home. Six cushions had been laid out in his sitting room in(15) .......... for a (16) .......... shooting - elbows, knees and ankles. This was a country where the concepts of law and order no longer had any meaning.

09. SECT ......................

10. GENERATE ......................

11. EUPHEMISM ......................

12. EXPECT ......................

13. VICTIM ......................

14. HARASS ......................

15. PREPARE ......................

16. PUNISH ......................

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