Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again, this time in the treacherous jungles of South America. Throughout MAMista (HarperCollins; 410 pages; $21.95), guerrillas attempt to seize control of Spanish Guiana, currently under the thumb of cryptofascist goons. The covert war is rife with betrayal, and ultimately no one is pure in Deighton's 17th spy novel. Intrigues misfire; disease kills more effectively than bullets; and corruption becomes the order of the day. Even so, the characters are shrewdly delineated, and the suspense continues until the final paragraph. Moral ambiguity used to be called Greeneland. Since Graham Greene's death, that territory is open for conquest...
Hedgewar argued that the only way to restore Hindu vigor was to stir a sense of martial nationalism in Hindus. The R.S.S., which has grown quickly in recent years to nearly 100,000 members, emphasizes fighting arts and militant Hindu pride, choosing as its heroes figures like Shivaji, a 17th century Hindu king who successfully fought the Muslim Mogul emperors...
...five are: Mark A. Kishlansky, a 17th century British historian from the University of Chicago; David Blackbourne, a 19th century social and political German scholar from the University of London, Birkbeck College; Peter J. Gallison '77, a professor of 20th century physics history from Stanford University; and Michael McCormick, who is an early medievalist from Johns Hopkins University...
...strain of being pulled in so many directions showed as the Crimson (17-6 overall, 10-0 EITA) suffered a first round 5-1 loss to Texas Christian University, the 17th-ranked team in the country...
...then come to imagine that all works of art carry sociopolitical messages the way brown bags carry sandwiches: open the flap and there they are. When one reads a cultural historian like Simon Schama reflecting on the art and society of 17th century Holland, one sees what deep access a contextual approach can give to culture. But this is a very far cry from the ritual indictments of the past on the grounds of racism, sexism, greed and so forth that increasingly substitute for thought among our academics. Lo, the Native American! See, he is depicted as dying! And note...