Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a high-pitched book, but not only to Australians will the pitch ring true. What Keneally is saying is that out of man's appalling origins, grace and art will come, through courage. His story is as lovely and as spare as a falcon stooping...
...incredible months" with the Senator, he writes like a man who has remembered everything and learned nothing. Recalling his library-raiding tour of USIS offices in Europe with G. David Schine, he admits that it might have been unnecessary to remove Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, but he still implies that John K. Fairbank's commendable classic, The United States and China, is somehow subversive-and quotes a paragraph out of context to prove...
There are three candidates for the post: Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador, supported by the big three, Marcos Falcon Briceno of Venezuela, and Eduardo Ritter Aislan of Panama. Ritter is the man causing all the trouble. There have been four ballots since November 17, and Ritter is ahead with 10 votes to Plaza's six and Falcon's five. It is a virtual deadlock--Ritter is two short of a majority--and the OAS has given up for the moment to let tempers cool. It will try again in January...
...high-pressured, often resorting to strong-arm political threats. Just last Thursday one of Ritter's partisans in the secretariat, Luis Raul Betances, a Dominican, was fired after another angry Dominican delegates reported that Raul promised to have him removed if he did not change his vote from Falcon to Ritter...
...falcon cannot hear the falconer...