Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basis of a hand-picked electorate; martial law was imposed after an outbreak of rioting in 1969. During those years, Pakistan was divided by more than geography. Physically and psychologically, the 58 million tall, light-skinned people of the west identified with the Islamic peoples who inhabit the arc of land stretching as far as Turkey. The smaller, darker East Pakistanis seemed to belong more to the world of South and Southeast Asia. More divisive yet was the fact that the westerners monopolized the government and the army and dominated the nation's commercial life. The East Pakistanis have...
Like Joan of Arc, Michel Collin was born into a Lorraine peasant family, and like the Maid, he heard voices. "You will become a priest, then a bishop, and finally Pope," he recalls Jesus telling him. To a purported 50,000 followers in Western Europe, Canada and the U.S., Collin is now Pope Clement XV of the "Renewed Church." Paul VI, of the Vatican, is a mere usurper...
...great was the excitement before the single Royal Albert Hall performance of Arthur Honegger's stage oratorio, Joan of Arc at the Stake, that the Observer compared it to the time in September 1968 when Pianist Daniel Barenboim was warned that he was going to be shot during a concert. The big attraction, however, was not murder; the oratorio was bringing together the professional talents of the recently married lovers Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, she as Joan, he as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and a children's choir. The critics were...
...course Joan of Arc, that provocative manifestation of God's will (or pure fortune), who appeared at the last moment to rally Charles' forces and save the country. But it was from the Dauphin, Louis, that leadership came to knit up the raveled threads of French life after St. Joan's battlefield miracle. Hung with epithets ("The universal spider," which referred to the scope and stickiness of his machinations, was one of the mildest), he eventually took his place in history as Louis XI, a giant and an ogre, a bloodstained, gloomy tyrant who forged a unitary...
...Though half of the members agreed to see her, Francoise noted wryly, "I was received with the exquisite politeness one reserves for one's inferiors. Privately, my adversaries would say to me: 'You'd be right for the Academy if you were Colette or Joan of Arc...