Word: antagonists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not share Author Scott's faith that the Big Three can achieve permanent peace for the world. In five bleak chapters he tells why. He warns that the U.S., because of the shrinking of space and time by technology, has inherited Britain's hereditary role as antagonist of Europe's No. 1 power, whoever that may be. He also reports in detail the Soviet plans for a big navy. His grim conclusion: "The coming period in world history will be, at best, a period of armed truce...
...Brass Knuckles. Spruille Braden himself was well aware that Latin sovereignty, Latin pride and-probably more often than he would like-Latin sloth were involved. Long before his critics awoke to the fact, he had realized that his No. 1 antagonist, Perón, commanded some popular support (perhaps 30% of organized Argentine labor, for instance). He understood, better than most, that the U.S. could do little more against the Argentine regime than continue to make U.S. displeasure known...
...democracy to Fascist-ridden Adano, and to arrogant, bellicose General Marvin, who sent him packing for defying the General's inhumane orders. But Marvin, who appears only once, looking not unlike General George Patton, is handled with such kid-gloved tenderness that he never becomes a real, hateful antagonist. In consequence, Joppolo's zeal for spreading democracy becomes a worthy but not over-exciting crusade that lacks the dramatic conflict which would have made it exciting...
...undemocratic orders, is a timely parable, limited in its black-&-white simplicity but illuminating. The play has all the book's affirmation, but not enough of its anger-for one thing, because General Marvin is nothing more than a first-act offstage below and never becomes a visible antagonist. Squeezing the whole life of the Sicilian town into Joppolo's office also carries penalties: some things have to be told about rather than shown; so many characters are involved that the many short scenes become jerky at times; and the role of the girl Tina (Margo) is both...
Scanty reports from Bolivia last week indicated that President Villarroel and his Government of young Army officers and intellectuals were again at war with the tin companies. Hochschild again was the chief antagonist. Patiño was in Montreal. Dapper Aramayo had ducked into sanctuary in the Spanish Embassy...