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Neither team got untracked in a sloppy first half of play, as both squads played tentatively. The usually fine-tuned Dutch machine looked rusty, and the flashy, explosive Argentinian squad played erratically...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: 'Ar-gen-ti-na' Cries Break Out As Booters Take World Cup | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...intensely busy committee meeting the Argentinian delegate called for the "hammer of the United Nations" to come down on South Africa for its racial policies...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Harvard Model U.N. Parties and Debates | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

Gato Barbieri, the Argentinian tenor sax player, brings a similar spirit to his jazz. Whatever jazz purists may say, Barbieri--who has been criticized for being overly slick--has produced a rich new album this year. He was greatly influenced by John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, and from 1964 on has gained a reputation as a leader in avant-garde jazz. His work has inclined lately to the near-orchestral, but his sax still sounds the way a glider might sound if it made music--it soars and dips smoothly, apparently without artifice. He plays a long and difficult...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Mardi Gras, Gurus & Dragonflies | 3/4/1977 | See Source »

Barba-Martin described his thesis on Domingo F. Sarmiento, the 19th century Argentinian president, diplomat, and writer as "not a very erudite, but a necessary work." Sarmiento, a man who wrote so much that "he didn't have time to number the pages," published two different versions of his biography of his illegitimate son. The earlier edition, Barba-Martin said, deals mostly with the child's personality. The second edition, cast against a chaotic background of Sarmiento's own public life, serves as a vehicle for the statesman's ideas about education that were influenced by the American Horace Mann...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Denizens of Widener | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...terrorist, with coat of arms indicating Irish, P.L.O., Argentinian, Angolan-quartered with Lebanese, Italian, American and a few other good lines -bearing a handgun, rifle, submachine gun, knife, grenade and or bomb, with crossed bandoliers and fear rampant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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