Word: bravo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, that role is claimed by Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the popular leader of Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Church. The Sandinistas have tried to muffle Obando and his followers. Church bashing has become a favorite sport of the two official newspapers, and both Radio Catolica and the Catholic printing press have been shut down in recent months. Priests have been hauled in for interrogation and offered the option either to leave the country or to sign up with the army. Last January, after the Cardinal delivered a letter to the United Nations charging the Sandinistas with attempting to "neutralize...
...Says Ralph Thomson, senior vice president of the American Electronics Association, which represents 2,700 manufacturers of everything from microchips to medical instruments: "Among the major barriers that we face in international trade, the strong dollar has been the primary one. When we see that situation changing, we say 'Bravo...
...Bravo--American Movie Classics...
...strictly the decree will be enforced, it had the effect of ratifying the sorts of measures the Sandinistas have been taking in recent months without the cloak of law. Their main target seems to be Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Church, led by the charismatic Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo. Days before Ortega's speech, Sandinista security agents had seized 10,000 copies of Iglesia, a new Catholic newsletter. Then just hours before the speech, government agents closed the magazine's office and seized its printing equipment. Apparently the publication offended the Sandinistas because it carried a letter from Cardinal Obando...
Henry seems to grasp this reality, at least in theory. He writes in his introduction: "The real campaign is the string of public events that voters observe, not the hidden web of strategy memos and fund-raising dinners and portentous telephone calls." Bravo. The problem is, Henry doesn't follow through. With few exceptions and obscured by his wonderfully elegant writing style, Visions of America gives us yesteryear's headlines with a dollop of conventional wisdom to serve as analysis. Since essay-writing appears to absolve him of the requirement to report, Henry can opine that "the most antagonistic major...