Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, most of the obstacles to readibility occur when Kearns haphazardly crowds the book with prevalent theories of political science. Machiavelli and de Tocqueville, those great legitimators of political science, are invoked and footnoted indiscriminately. Government professor Richard Neustadt's conjectures about presidential power, especially his discovery of the president...
You should ask the cannibal, the arch-cannibal, his imperial majesty, the shah of shahs, the Light of the Aryans. Or you should ask Kim Roosevelt, the former CIA agent who has now become a go-between in the sale of arms to the shah.
Married. Hiroo Onoda, 54, the Japanese Imperial Army lieutenant who continued to wage World War II as a lonely guerrilla in the jungles of the Philippines until 1974; and Machie Onoki, 38, a tea ceremony instructress whom Onoda met in a Tokyo restaurant; in Sao Paulo, Brazil, not far from...
Nor is this tendency exclusively American--it has well-developed French, Russian and British counterparts. But the vision of literature as a selfcontained world has achieved its fullest acceptance here, in part because of its perfect suitability for the compartmentalization of disciplines in American universities. More important perhaps, as Quentin...
Ambler shares some of his hero's flaws, and he is cynical enough to know it. Obviously he is much too cynical. There are some elements of imperial Britain in his attitude--Arabs tend to smell, for example, and Americans are vulgar and prone to cowboy delusions. There is a...