Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Electra defies Zeus by performing a joyous dance. Just as the town is nearly liberated from its guilt by her own freedom, Zeus makes a sign of his presence, and Electra fails. But her dance nonetheless forces Orestes to murder Aegistheus and Clytemnestra. Aegistheusis too weary of repentence to resist...
...concerned.'' This in itself was a big improvement over the Communists' long record of village-by-village victory in South Viet Nam. Before going to Hawaii for the meeting, McNamara made a major policy speech in which he declared that the U.S. is determined to resist when ever the Communists wage such "wars of liberation," in which "the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action" and the tactics are those of "the sniper, the ambush and the raid, terror, extortion and assassination." These tactics will be countered...
...Algerian peace is a reality. If he stays on as President, he will set about the "renovation" of France, which to him means re-establishing la patrie as the dominant political, military and diplomatic power in Europe. While going along with the Common Market, he is determined to resist "supranationalism" and to maintain French independence of action, including a French nuclear striking force. This politique de grandeur may make De Gaulle a problem for the U.S., but it should also make him a more secure, more reliable partner. Primarily, his policy is an effort to channel French chauvinism...
...real test of Louis Joxe's nerves came last fortnight when the Algerian government agreed to a last-ditch attempt to reach a settlement. Joxe was convinced that the Algerians would be able to resist pressure from their own anti-French extremists only if the negotiations were hermetically sealed off from newsmen. As a meeting place Joxe chose Les Rousses, a crowded but unfashionable French ski resort near the Swiss border. There the French team took over the government-owned Chalet du Yeti (the Cottage of the Abominable Snowman). The Algerians, quartered across the border at a lakeside resort...
Roberto is close in spirit to Dmitri Karamazov. A mischievous youth, he is of darker skin than the others in his family, and he suffers for it. From the start he cannot resist thievery, cannot stay out of trouble. He deserts the army, and back in the city continues to brawl and rob. At the same time, he proves simpler, more genuine than any of his siblings, although he has difficulty in being able to love, especially as he must accept the taboo which prevents his declaring and consummating his passion for his half-sister Antonia. He harbors a just...