Word: liberatore
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History Laid Bare's only failing is its author's refusal to acknowledge that the book works best as a procrastination tool. In the introduction and in the running commentary which links the anecdotes together, Zacks sets himself up as a righteous liberator of history from "Victorians and other prudish...
Instead, the novel's bad "guy"--and perhaps the characters' liberator--is a wonderfully sinister, manipulative creature named Zenia. Zenia, however, resists sexist categorizations in her own way: while seemingly a femme fatal, she cannot be simply, reductively seductive. Instead she remains the evil enigma. Nor is she ultimately fatal...
The plotters apparently believed that popular discontent was sufficient to swing the citizenry to their side. Over the years, the officers had made little secret of their intentions or their motives, though no one paid much attention. Calling themselves the Bolivarian Military Movement, they pledged allegiance to the country's...
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The last months and days of Simon Bolivar, the brilliant and thwarted liberator of South America, are imaginatively reconstructed by the acknowledged master of magic realism. As the general flees from his progressive illness and ungrateful people, he trails, in his...
So will Estonia, Latvia, Georgia and the rest. But even if Gorbachev, like Bolivar, fails as a unifier, he too will be remembered above all as a liberator.