Word: ils
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...commercial airliner: from China and from the Soviet Union. The symbolism is apt. For the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as it is called, most closely resembles the China of the late 1960s or the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin. North Korea's President Kim Il Sung, 71, is in fact the last surviving Communist leader installed by Stalin, and commands an idolatry that borders on the pathological...
Many of the encomiums heaped upon Kim Il Sung are, in any language, indecipherable gobbledygook. Korea Today, a monthly propaganda magazine, published this sentence: "His unexcelled prodigious wisdom . . . cyclopaedic knowledge of nature and society, clairvoyant scientific insight with which to perceive clearly the essence of inextricably entangled phenomena and ability to compress aspirations of millions of people in a simple proposition ... are his distinguished qualities with which to conduct ideo-theoretical activities." Moreover, North Korean officials steadfastly assert that the world looks to Pyongyang for inspiration and that the government's paid propaganda advertisements in Western newspapers constitute editorial...
...across the park on signal. They are wearing white helmets, which are all you can see bobbing up and down in the night. They are screaming and chanting, and suddenly start the high-pitched shrill used by the people of Algiers during the revolution. Ill-leel-leel-lil-ill-il-eel-eeeeeeeeeeee...
...different Italy was through an unlikely source. Italians are a diverse lot, but they are unified by a common national obsession. From Parma to Pisa they worship the game of soccer. And in the summer of 1982 their obsession intensified with the playing of the quadrennial World Cup championships (il Mondial) in Spain in June and July...
...achieved through anger and patience before the uncouth hordes could be formed into a people who would be more than the usual community to whom the ordinary was comfortable ..." Too often, there is an air of comfortable ordinariness about the Met, such as casting a popular opera like Il Trovatore with a soprano past her prime and a tenor who never had one, or substituting a less-than-star-quality singer like Herman Malamood for Pavarotti in Idomeneo. Still, on a day-to-day basis, the Met's productions are the equal of any, the result of Levine...