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Lessons Learned. The reasons for Perón's anti-U.S. campaign are rooted in his conviction that Argentina should be the leader of South America, and in jealousy of U.S. influence and prestige. The campaign also serves as a handy way of diverting attention from Argentina'...
How well the alliance would work was largely up to its leader, the U.S. It would have to avoid the illusion of safety, the guilt of weakness.
Heartbreak House, Shaw carefully explains in his introduction to the play, "is cultured, leisured Europe before the war." To members of the audience who have had the bad luck to miss the explanatory preface, it could be any one of a number of things, from a perverse drawing room comedy...
Claude Debussy did not like the way Felix Weingartner conducted Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony-"with the care of a conscientious gardener. He tidied it so neatly as to produce the illusion of a meticulously finished landscape in which the gently undulating hills are made of plush at ten francs...
Traven gets his best effects by using a prose of such naturalness that it gives an immediate illusion of truth-to-life. Much of what he has to say is bitter to the point of savagery; and he is capable of heightening this grimness still further by laying on strokes...