Word: facing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even dictators face death, and on that certitude Spain's Francisco Franco, 76 and ailing, has for months been fashioning a succession to his liking. Three months ago, he decreed the restoration of a constitutional monarchy after his death; at his direction, Spain's Parliament designated bland, handsome Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 31, as eventual Chief of State. To ensure that the actual governing of Spain will be in expert hands, Franco has also been planning the Cabinet that he wants to leave in charge of the country. Last week...
...prosciutto performance-but that is exactly what the part requires. Strutting on the cobblestones, cowering before Rosa, exchanging peasantries with the Germans, he becomes a figure of comic-operatic stature. If Quinn is Italo, Magnani is Italy. The ancient sorrow and strength of the nation are inscribed on a face that was not born but achieved...
Like Diogenes, Stephen Becker has spent most of his career as a novelist searching for an honest man-or at least a protagonist who can face a tough moral decision with honesty. In A Covenant with Death, a youthful judge must decide the fate of a man who kills his executioner after being convicted of a murder that he did not commit. Juice concerns a wealthy businessman fighting the machinery mobilized to exonerate him of the drunken-driving death of a pedestrian. Now, in his sixth novel, Becker, 42, turns back to the Civil War. In an excellent period morality...
...students who participated in the sit-in, however, will face disciplinary action, Paul E. Gray, assistant provost, announced at a press conference late in the afternoon...
...person who identified himself as an M. I. T. student carried a can of mace into the crowd and sprayed a male demonstrator in the face before walking away...