Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Porous Security. After escaping, Betancourt made his way by foot, train and car or truck to two towns outside Havana, seeking refuge at several farms. Some peasants took him in; others went to the police. After his brother Luis went into Havana to seek a hiding place for the escapee...
The tradition of the family continues to decline. While some see it as the individual's last refuge from Big Organization, it has lost much of its cohesiveness-joint vacations for parents and even slightly older children have become a rarity. Paternal authority, long on the wane, is being...
When war broke out between Czarist Russia and Germany in 1914, Gabo sought refuge in neutral Norway, accompanied by Alexei and a third brother, the cubist painter Antoine Pevsner. It was there, according to Alexei, that constructivism was born. "During walks along the shores of the fjords and in the...
A Maiden Fair. The story takes place Far Away (south of France, north of Italy) and Long Ago (end of the 16th century). The heroine, a young Frenchwoman Of Gentle Birth named Emily St. Aubert, is a Damsel In Distress-Alone In the Cold Cruel World with only her Lofty...
Decayed Likeness. Turner's romanticism was directed more at his art than his private life. A reclusive bachelor till his death in 1851, he was more a stodgy old crumpet than the philanderer who, several biographers have hinted, fathered five illegitimate children. Though fame attracted him, he dodged the...