Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capitalism," edited a strident, anticolonial weekly called Le Paria (The Untouchable), wrote a bitter, anti-French comedy called Le Dragon de Bambou. In 1918 he rented a suit and trotted out to Versailles to badger Woodrow Wilson for the "liberation" of "Viet Nam"-the ancient name for the region that all Frenchmen divided into partes tres: Tonkin China, Annam and Cochin China. His pleas were lost in the shuffle of more immediate history, and he never got to see Wilson. But the farsighted Bolsheviks in Moscow saw promise in the skinny, ardent Annamite...
...Fifth Circuit ruled for Shurbet. Congress, said the court, "intended depletion as a means of allowing an annual deduction to represent the capital exhausted in the taxpayer's business." As a consequence of the decision, the 17,250 landowners in the High Plains region, which stretches along the Canadian River from New Mexico into the Texas panhandle, should now be able to claim a depletion deduction in their next income tax report...
...Giorgione or Titian. It was more characteristic of him to siphon his Biblical subjects through what a Brescia critic once described as "the rustic and cantankerous dialect of his own district." The results were often warm and whimsical. Windows and archways open onto rocky landscapes typical of the region. His Saviour is not the emaciated, sublimely anguished figure of his colleagues, but pasta-fed and plump, his saints more spirited than spiritual. His chubby cherubs often pout like naughty children; in St. Anthony of Padua they hold up a garland from a lemon tree which then, as now, grew...
...damnations. In the first circle, the innocent shades of pre-Christian times exist in peace. In the next four, the souls of the incontinent are tormented. Heresy, violence and fraud have their reward in the sixth, seventh and eighth circles, and traitors fill the bottom of the pit-a region not of everlasting fire but of eternal...
...rill that plunges from a mountain to the depths." Beatrice precedes him, and on the way they encounter the shining spirits of the saved-among them Justinian, Charles Martel, St. Thomas, Solomon, Charlemagne and St. Benedict. As Dante's spirit soars toward God, his lines soar into a region of mystical incandescence...