Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief character sketch in Milestones, in which the Most Rev. James A. McNulty [Sept. 18] was described as "iron-willed," "hot-tempered" and "conservative." I can understand the use of the term "iron-willed" rather than the more charitable "firm." I can understand the label "conservative." What amazed, angered and grieved me (in that order) was to read of a man who was in reality characterized by gentleness, patience under attack and genuine long-suffering without complaint described as "hot-tempered...
Since April, when really serious digging began, no fewer than 1,000 major artifacts have been unearthed. The catalogue ranges from ancient Indian relics to a wide sampling of colonial Americana that includes a rusty piece of armor, flintlocks, riding spurs, china and cutlery, locks and keys, handwrought iron nails and pins, a winebottle seal and even Venetian glass beads (apparently for barter with the Indians...
...Manmchurian Candidates. A celebration of Paranoia. Directed by John Frankenheimer from a George Azerrod script. It's a Cold War fantary which mocks both the Left and Right sides of the Iron and Bamboo curtains(remember them?) Lawrence Harvey is a Korean War brainwashed by Red Chinese is become an assassin-on-request. But the plot is not as it seems, for the actual conspiracy which controls him is a union of yellow and white Leninist`s with McCarthyites. Frank Sinatra plays the good guy in the film, an Army buddy of Harvey's who senses something's wrong...
Straying Parties. Still iron-willed at 80, Tito seemed more determined than ever to prevent any division of Yugoslavia into separate states after his death. Such a prospect has always haunted him, and with reason. Five major national groups compose the fragile fabric of Yugoslav unity: the fiercely independent Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians. Twenty years ago Tito granted a measure of autonomy to the Communist parties that rule Yugoslavia's six republics. But such decentralization served to encourage separatist aspirations. As a result, Tito decided to centralize and discipline the straying parties. Since last December, when Tito...
...treatment, which consists of regular transfusions of red blood cells, can be risky. Frequent transfusions can cause immune reactions and lead to an iron overload damaging to the liver...