Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holds the Marxist-Leninist regime of Nicaragua [responsible] for the death of the U.S. citizen by allowing him to enter an area of civil war of our country, which is between Nicaraguans and not foreigners," it said...
Since the U.S. resumed military aid last fall to the contras in their seven- year-old war against the Marxist-oriented Sandinista government, the rebels have left their training camps in Honduras and established new bases inside Nicaragua. Their aim has been to resupply troops in the northern province of Jinotega. While still small in number, the camps are becoming an important adjunct to the air-supply operations that furnish rebels in Nicaragua with the bulk of their food and weapons...
This book is radical. It endorses a Marxist-based understanding of musical culture in America, vehemently denies that widely publicized high culture represents the best around, and not least, definitively debunks the myths that surrounded Toscanini...
Toscanini's viscerally exciting performances, wrought with supreme tension and instrumental clarity, though sometimes sacrificing musical depth, also account for his popularity, according to Horowitz. Here Horowitz invokes the theories of Theodor Adorno, a Marxist of the Frankfurt school. Adorno, Horowitz writes, understood culture of the "bourgeois epoch"--"affirmative" and "official"--as neglecting the contradictions inherent in great art. Although proponents claimed classical would lead to universal enlightenment, "aspects of the concert hall experience were standardized, atomized, `fetishized,'" by alienated members of a "commodity society...
...exuberant teenagers, stomping their feet and shaking the arena. Then they began to chant "Pin-o-chet, go away!," conscious that they were on the site where scores of Chileans were killed and hundreds tortured after the 1973 coup in which General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. His voice trembling, the Pope acknowledged the "sadness" of the place and urged his audience "not to remain indifferent in the face of injustice" but cautioned them to avoid being "seduced by violence and the thousands of reasons that seem to justify...