Word: r
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah joined a large contingent of former heads of state-some honorable, some not-who have sought refuge in the U.S. Alexander Kerensky, Prime Minister of a short-lived democracy in post-Czarist Russia, eventually found a home here after his ouster by the Soviets. So did Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, South Korean Strongman Syngman Rhee, Cambodia's Marshal Lon Nol and Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista. South Viet Nam's former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, a resident of California, will be eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship next spring...
...family name is spelled with only one r owing to an 18th century heraldic error...
Mindful that the work was composed in 1787, on the eve of the French Revolution, Losey chooses to see it as a drama of conflict between a cynical, depleted ancìen régime and the exploited lower orders. He tacks on an epigraph from Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci: ". . . the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appears." His Don, solemnly played by Ruggero Raimondi, is a joyless, brooding creature whose compulsive sexuality is merely a neurotic reflection of social tensions. Losey gives us the least passionate seducer...
...John R. Scylla '81, supervisor of the mini-course, said this week the three non-credit mini-courses given thus far have introduced 27 students who are not "computer people" to computer basics...
...R. Peter Flocken Utica...