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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!, by Brian Friel, is the battle cry of a young man who finds that he must first defeat his past in a small Irish village before setting off to conquer the future in America...
Shots at the Shutters. News of the attempted conquest electrified all Argentina. The nation's Peronist labor unions called for all-out mobilization to conquer the Malvinas. A gang of toughs invaded the British consulate at Rosario and burned a portrait of Queen Victoria. In Buenos Aires, eight shots were fired at the shuttered windows of the British embassy, where Prince Philip had just arrived for a three-week goodwill visit. To calm the uproar, President Juan Carlos Ongania issued an announcement declaring that while the islands were the rightful property of Argentina, the government would stand...
...year-old charmer who plays the title role with no pauses for sentimental nonsense. Whether cruising serenely up and down an escalator or boldly offering a well-weathered wrist to a perfume saleslady, Sylvie exudes the quiet joy of a space-age grandma who has briskly set out to conquer the space between rocking chair and requiescat...
This tendency, Oglesby feels, derives from the image we have of our role in the socio-economic structure of the world. "The U.S. sees itself as a frontier of western civilization," an image that connotes a conflict between good and evil. "The wilderness," or what we must conquer to preserve our society, lies anywhere that Western values have not yet penetrated...
...when the demands and expectations on Medicine have been so great. The demands arise from the rapid increase in the world's population, the increasing affluence of modern industrialized society with its ability to pay for better than minimal health standards and the expectation that Medicine can reduce suffering, conquer disease and assure to all a better life free of physical and mental illness...