Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he has not yet irrevocably repudiated the leftists, Perón is inexorably edging to the right. As increasing violence brings the country ever closer to civil war, events are forcing him to choose. Just last week, Jorge V. Quíroga, a former judge assigned to political cases, was gunned down in central Buenos Aires by leftist guerrillas. Since Perón formally took office, 22 businessmen, foreign and Argentine, have been kidnaped, mainly by leftists; 18 people have been killed in political violence and more than twice as many have been wounded; several houses and a newspaper...
...fiction do anything for the war in Viet Nam that ten years of TV film clips and a torrent of journalism did not? After all the surfeits of that war-the distant carnage, the fallout of casualties closer to home, the national agony of consciousness and political dislocation in the U.S.-can the imagination of a storyteller offer anything more than a few slice-of-death memories...
...closer than anyone thought it would be, except perhaps the Harvard second boat and Wisconsin's J.V. But in the end the Crimson did what it was supposed to do, downing the Badgers and taking the heavyweight grand finals at the Eastern Sprints...
...nightcap, on the other hand, was a bit closer. Both starters, O'Malley and Mark Softy for Princeton, sailed through the first four innings with the Tigers getting the only hit, a double by Kevin Kaufman in the second. But Princeton could not capitalize on the hit and Kaufman died at third...
...that historians are moving closer to quantification as a basis for studying past movements, Degler's subject matter puts him at a disadvantage. While he may march through studies of Southern dissent predating the Nullification crisis of the 1830s and continuing until around 1900, he cannot take a census of the Other South. Like the "Southern liberals" in the 1940s and 50s, the majority of nineteenth century dissenting Southerners were silent and they had few spokesmen in the raging debates of their times. Those who left records of their views--writers, newspaper editors, business leaders or politicians--had some access...