Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of the clean-cut junior officers who had staged the military operation, two generals and a beefy colonel stood before the cameras wearing battle fatigues and bearing bolstered pistols. Their leader was retired Brigadier General José Efraín Ríos Montt, 55, a dark-haired, silver-mustached officer who had run unsuccessfully for President in 1974 with the backing of the Christian Democratic Party and was generally thought of as being a moderate. The general launched into a rambling, emotional diatribe that left some Guatemalans and foreign observers wondering who was running the country-and where...
...work, he must wrestle with the question of whether or not a mortal can be more compassionate than God. In Joy, an aging rabbi mourns the death of his daughter and loses his faith. He concludes that "the atheists are right. There is no justice, no Judge." But one dark mystery is supplanted by another. His lost child appears and asks him to join her after Rosh Hashana. He resumes his duties and then dies with a message: "One should always be joyous...
...judgmental possibility that is frightening: the fact that one's sense of discrimination is exposed by his books. Indeed, most people would much prefer to see the guest first scan, then peer and turn away in boredom or disapproval. Alas, too often the eyes, dark with calculation, shift from title to title as from girl to girl in an overheated dance hall. Nor is that the worst. It is when those eyes stop moving that the heart too stops. The guest's body twitches; his hand floats up to where his eyes have led it. There is nothing...
Ronald Reagan was wearing a dark blue suit with a white handkerchief deftly planted in his breast pocket-the standard uniform of many a presidential tour. But he was also wearing a pair of rubber rain boots, hastily borrowed from a local farmer named Greg Miller. The occasion: a quick stop in Fort Wayne, Ind., where for a few minutes last week the President joined a crew of flood-control workers in passing sandbags to be stacked along the muddy banks of the swollen St. Mary's River...
...scaffolding of the unfinished New Town Hall. He also made his homages to the landscape of symbols. The most spectacular paysage moralisé in his work was the motif for two versions of The Jewish Cemetery, circa 1655. This gloomy landscape pullulates with symbols: the broken tree over the dark brook, suggesting a bridge across the Styx; the wan rainbow; the ruins, the air of desolation, transience and decay; and the crystalline, stony geometry of the tombs. Their purity interested Goethe, who would later design an abstract memorial for himself. "Even in their ruined state," he declared, Ruisdael...