Word: canted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supertight Caribbean island nation are clear. After years of posing as Latin America's strongest anti-Communist bulwark, the dictator has started cozying up to Castro and the Soviet bloc. Six months ago Trujillo's Radio Caribe propaganda outlet adopted a Marxist, anti-U.S. cant in its commentary. Last August the dictator sent emissaries to Europe and began the first of a series of secret meetings with Iron Curtain leaders; rumors are buzzing in Ciudad Trujillo that diplomatic relations will soon be established with Poland and Russia...
...Algerian situation here; that story has, basically, been told often enough. But Aron's views on the Fifth Republic's attempt to answer the question: "Is a democracy capable of waging a war of which an important element in the country disapproves?" are completely free of familiar cant, and remarkable in that respect at least. He speculates that two years ago de Gaulle could have acceded to the demands of the F.L.N. for compromise "without provoking a revolt by the French soldiers and citizens of Algeria," so strong was his prestige at that time. He is only vaguely optimistic about...
...means should he attempt to make the choices himself--that should be left to the politicians--for he may ignore the social and political implications of his decision. There is nothing new about any of this, but Black puts it in a simple, exemplary fashion that makes the cant of the campaign seem properly absurd. "The mere fact that a river runs down-hill very fast," he says, "is not sufficient reason to build a power...
...them cant about decorum...
...called him "Lord" Timothy and he gloried in the title. In his curious book called A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, he proclaimed: "Ime the first Lord in the younited States of Amercay ... It is the voice of the peopel and I cant help it." He kept a private poet and had him crowned at an elaborate public ceremony, once brought a lion from New York and invited the public to his house to look at him, "nine pence, each person." Long before his death, he had an elaborate tomb built...