Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested many of the country's leading voices of dissent. But in Spain, after four decades of repressive dictatorship, more than 20 million voters turned out peacefully to accomplish what Spanish newspapers called "a triumph of moderation." Parties of both the far left and far right were rejected in favor of a middle-of-the-road government headed by Premier Adolfo
Sadat said, again and again, "In the game of Middle Eastern peace, the U.S. holds 99% of the cards." He switched from the old Arab policy of trying to force the U.S. to abandon Israel in favor of the Arabs. He knew that only as a friend of Israel could the U.S. influence it. "You have a special relationship with Israel," he told a group of American businessmen on a TlME-sponsored tour of the Middle East, "and I want you to keep that relationship." While Sadat encouraged American leaders to believe that a Middle East peace was in their...
...never let me go until he was sure I could stand on my feet." Still a tireless community apostle at 50, Haynes returns the favor to as many young people as he can. He also makes certain that his elderly members are picked up and brought to the church three times a week. A black, Haynes served three terms in the Massachusetts house of representatives and is now on the state parole board. Like most black Evangelicals, he has no patience whatever with his white brothers who pay no attention to social justice. Yet he insists on the necessity...
Much of the grit has come from punk and New Wave bands whose songs favor sledgehammer subtlety and three-chord accompaniment. Costello, however, dismisses American punks as "rich hippies whining about the Viet Nam War" and resists any invitation to describe himself. "The minute you become self-conscious about what you're doing, or start analyzing it, it's all over," he snaps. "I choose not to explain...
...embodiment of France, and most interested of all in Joan the revolutionary sounding the first, heady, rebel call to arms of insurrectionary mass man. Using his own hyphenated emphases, Shaw describes her as a "protestant" and a "nation-alist." Joan protests against the authority of the church in favor of the individual conscience. She subverts the authority of the feudal aristocracy by proclaiming the supremacy of the nation-state. It is the love of democracy, not the love of God, which binds Joan's commoner-soldiers to the peasant-saint. It is the fear of democracy, not the fear...