Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last flamboyant gesture. He appears in an up-turned collar, flowing pink cravat and a suit of shimmering green. His hair is a delicate tint of mauve and he holds theatrical court from a cluster of antique-looking furniture. Subjects covered range from the excesses of Eva Peron to the finer, eccentric points of domestic science ("never sweep the place where you live, because after the first four years the dust doesn't get any worse...
Thus he can shape a whole evening about Evita Peron that ducks the moral dimensions of fascism and can adapt poems by T.S. Eliot without tackling any metaphysical notion more complicated than an escalator ride into the clouds. No celestial choirs appear to sing in Lloyd Webber's ears, no muse or demon seems to haunt him, and his concoctions cannot bear close logical inspection. But he can beguile even sophisticated viewers into believing for the moment that they are witnessing highflying...
...however, the doctor was beginning to feel the pressure of his past. Spotted that year by an Auschwitz survivor, he left Freiburg, making his way to Italy and from there through Spain to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, he was assured of a warm reception: President Juan Domingo Peron was known to be tolerant of former Nazis and had promised to protect them...
...impunity, though without a license. On one occasion, it is said, a patient died while Mengele was performing an abortion on her, and he found himself in jail. Two hours later a friend posted bail, and the "Angel of Death" was free once again. In the late '50s, after Peron had been exiled and the West German government had issued a request for Mengele's extradition, the doctor moved again, this time to Paraguay...
...Peron's only successor will be the Argentine people, who in the last analysis will be the ones who decide." El Lider uttered those words shortly before he died. In a sense, the Argentine people picked Peron's successor last week. Peronists, Radicals and generals alike, they will now decide whether Raul Alfonsin becomes the first elected President since Juan Peron to serve a full six-year term. -By James Kelly...