Word: diese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether Generalissimo Francisco Franco lives or dies, it seems evident that Spain will have a new ruler by next week. While the end of Franco's rule marks, in one sense, the end of a symbol of fascism, it is not clear whether totalitarianism will continue under his hand-picked...
Singer's work sometimes drops precipitously from reasoned metaphysics to unexamined mysticism. In ghost stories, where everything is possible for the narrator, too little is plausible for the reader. It is in his least adorned works that the mysteries of affection and identity are hauntingly stated. Sam Palka and...
"Franco was a lynchpin in a complicated political system, Womack said. "Something theatrical will happen when he dies, but not rioting."
Yet the frailty of el Caudillo, who has looked all of his 82 years since he suffered a near-fatal illness in mid-1974, was a dramatic reminder of how much more the regime needs to do to relax its often harsh rule and prepare Spain for a smooth transition...
Near the beginning of this great Midwestern journey, Charles Neumiller supervises the home burial of his father Otto, a German Catholic immigrant who had carved an honest farm out of the unyielding North Dakota plains. Near the end, Charles himself dies and is mourned by new generations of Neumillers. Between...