Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite right. Isn't that actually a perfectly natural process, particularly among friends? More important, is this not proof that we are coming out of the dark ages of the Nazi...
...members of the military juntas that ruled the country from 1976 to 1982. The trial, in Buenos Aires' gothic Tribunales building, is expected to last for several months as six judges hear evidence of alleged human rights abuses against suspected subversives. An estimated 9,000 Argentines disappeared during that dark era. Many are believed to have been killed by death squads operating with official sanction...
...dark pall hovers over the the story when Ilana's father is killed while covering the fascist bombing of Guernica. Ilana continues to go to synagogue in order to say Kaddish despite her mother's disapproval. Soon, Ilana leaves public school and enrolls in a Jewish day school. There is a sort of spiritual determinism at work here: despite her mother's adamant atheism, despite her father's Protestant background Ilana has a Jewish soul in need of uncovering. This represents a twist of the theme of generational conflict that is at the crux of much of Potok's work...
...habits, fetishes, addictions, inclinations? What solitary acts, behavioral ruts? I found crayon drawings of a figure with full breasts and male genitals. There was a long piece of twine that contained a series of knots and loops. I found a banana skin with a tampon inside. Was this the dark underside of consumer consciousness...
...rare blood disease," and the U.S. Post Office banned the pamphlet What Every Girl Should Know because of its explicit references to gonorrhea, physicians became more vocal in supporting sex education and moralistic in abhorring the vices, "bred in the pestilential hot house atmosphere of dark, dirty, ill-ventilated homes, which induce ... abnormal cravings...