Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dissenters must lead a double life. One family had a secret door in their closet where they hid such "subversive" material as banned Argentine Julio Cortazar's novels, Marx's complete works, and New York Times articles about Argentine repression. Although they vocally criticized the government in their apartment, in public cafes with friends they hyperbolically praised Videla's political policies. "You can't trust anyone," they explained...
Simple, direct and suffused with melancholy, the poems were carried into the trenches of World War I by thousands of "lads," few of whom knew anything of the author-just as the poet wished. A Cambridge don who shunned any mention of his verse, Housman hid behind a late-Victorian mask of colorless propriety. The flamboyant London literary scene of the turn of the century left him cold. "He was like an absconding cashier," recalled Max Beerbohm. "We certainly wished he would abscond...
...upheld the conviction of a man who, his lawyers argued, had been the victim of a police ploy to get him to incriminate himself. The defendant, Thomas J. Innis, was picked up by Providence police several days after he killed a cab driver with a shotgun, which he subsequently hid. On the way to the station house, one patrolman remarked to his companion about the handicapped children at a school near the arrest site: "God forbid one of them might find a weapon with shells and they might hurt themselves." Innis spoke up and directed the officers to the shotgun...
...from a Chinese restaurant. Louise doesn't see the humor: "Is this what you and the New York girls are into?" Hardly, as Nina can verify. She suggests that Knapp uses her apartment as a refuge, and he comes to see her point: "She was right that he hid in her apartment. He was hiding from himself, or at best playing peekaboo, pretending it was a safe game and that there were only little surprises: the infant seeing that it's still a friend behind the fingers...
...crisis is at least as volatile today as it had been for the months during which Carter hid from the American people. It is Carter's own political future that has suddenly become less manageable--as inflation continues unabated and the nation's economy slides towards the worst recession in almost a decade, the slings and arrows of Carter's opponents are beginning to penetrate his rose-colored armor...