Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fusco had scored the game winner in Harvard's 5-4 overtime conquest of Cornell last Friday. That victory, the squad's first within the Ithaca city limits since 1975, pulled the Crimson within a half-game of Yale in the race for first place in the Ivy Division and the corresponding ECAC playoff spot...
...simplemindedness in foreign affairs the metaphor probably reflects a shared and abiding American faith in a world we can solve. That geometric precision may not be attuned to modern life. The cube cliche recalls the Gordian Knot, that ancient interlocking challenge whose solution held the secrets of Asian conquest. Like Alexander bringing Hellenism to the heathen, Americans want to bear democracy and Western hopes and dreams to an undemocratic non-Western world...
...gains with minimum risk of war by means of diplomacy, intimidation, propaganda, covert action, or the use of proxies. If necessary, though, it will resort to direct military intervention to ensure the survival of the Soviet system, including in those countries where the system has been imposed by outright conquest-such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia and, possibly next, Poland. On Christmas Day two years ago, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan to prop up a faltering Marxist regime and has been there ever since...
Certainly nothing short of military conquest will reverse this revolution, for once men have gained control over their own lives they will not surrender it. Making the break is the key, for in the time before, surrender is a daily event, a subconscious and draining part of living. And then dignity is won in a moment, in that brief flash when you demand what is right and you are not thrown in jail, shot in the back, consigned to an asylum. For the Polish workers, their first demands were quite simple--the rehiring of one shipyard employee, and wage increases...
...clearerheaded (and, by a few inches, taller) boy from time zone to time zone; yet unlike Dorothy's tribulations in Oz, each seems chosen for comical rather than didactic purpose. The first era represents Napoleon (Ian Holm) as a silly drunk, obsessed with height and puppets instead of the conquest of Italy. Holm is awkwardly funny in a sort of ludicrous, obvious way, not even bothering to sustain a French accent. Agamemnon (Sean Connery, looking at once--and for once--agacious, fatherly, and mischievous), is concerned more with magic tricks than his empire. Such is the toying with history...