Word: disappears
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concede, however, that Spain's younger liberals and leftists probably do not even think about the government in exile any more. Even the fiery Valera has had moments of realistic resignation. "We're getting old," he said at a Republican gathering in 1974, "and we'll disappear soon. We won't ever take over." At least one triumph, however, seemed virtually assured to Valera and his fellow veterans. They were close to winning their 40-year struggle to outlive the Generalissimo...
Hassan, the only King left in North Africa, is well aware that his is "a job that tends to disappear." His rule remains personal and absolute. When he spent a month recovering from hemorrhoid surgery last January, the government ground almost to a halt. Despite the tension with neighboring Algeria, Morocco has strong ties with most other Arab nations; except for issues involving Israel, it is basically pro-Western in foreign policy and open toward European and American investments. Since 1973 Hassan has emulated his oil-rich Arab allies by pushing up the price of phosphate rock from...
...Beaux-Arts professor, "need never ask the way in a good plan." Ideally, one was carried forward by the logic of the plan as, at a play, one was swept along by the plot. The buildings were meant to unfold. This feeling for ritual movement, the promenade, would almost disappear from architecture in the 20th century; and yet it was functional. Gamier was one of the last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just go to the opera to see performance; they went to enjoy a ritual called "going...
University of California in 1964-65. His principal subject was folklore, but his favorite activity seems to have been creating the Legend of Gershon Legman. "The kids would space out, disappear," he says. "I used to burn bonfires of pot in a living-room grate. The campus was rotten with drugs. At one stage, I got banned from speaking to the students because I ran two courses called Orgasm I and Orgasm II. They were about literature. If it had been Violence I and II, there would have been no problem...
...members in Spain by couriers and a constantly changing network of "safe" telephones. Carrillo has repeatedly voiced his opposition to Juan Carlos. "The Prince is, in effect, the son of Franco," the Secretary recently told TIME Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers. "All Franco's structures will have to disappear, including Juan Carlos. If the people decide they want a monarch, then he will be Don Juan"-Juan Carlos' father, who has been living in exile in Portugal...