Word: che
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frustrating laws or defending themselves from dangerous and powerful enemies." Paesanos fantasize about "living an honorable, transparent life in peace in an honorable, transparent country in which there should be no need to lie. The dream can be traced down the centuries in many documents, books, poems and paintings." Che sfortuna, a handful of Italians, most of them politicians, do not share that vision, and pandemonium reigns...
...WEALTH, EDUCATION IS OUR LIBERATION, WORK HARDER, GROW MORE FOOD, BUILD THE REVOLUTION. With equal alacrity, the Grenadians have adeptly copied the dress code of the revolution, and the streets of the port capital town of St. George's are filled with remarkably accurate understudies for Che Guevara. The government's "mass rallies" have got the stem-winding syntax of fighting socialism down to the last fist-raising rounds of "Long live! Long live...
...their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant buried deep in the Yorkshire moors. It was called the Frog and the Peach, and there were only two entrées on the menu: Frog à la pêche and Pêche à la frog...
Must the public exhibit of the Christmas crèche be interpreted as an attempt by the Government to establish religion [Dec. 20]? If civil libertarians succeed in stripping all public displays of their religious connotation, they will have trivialized a once richly symbolic feast...
...other local officials have settled instead for allowing private groups to set up crèches on government property. Such displays are now often accompanied by signs disclaiming any direct city role. Although the A.C.L.U. in Rhode Island last week decided to bring suit against one such crèche in Providence, other A.C.L.U. affiliates believe that the use of private funds eliminates the constitutional problem. "As long as public land is available to everyone and no public funds are used, we think religious displays are fine," says John Roberts, executive director of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union...