Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexander Farrelly, governor of the U.S. VirginIslands, asked Bush to authorize use of troops torestore order on St. Croix, said White Housespokesperson Roman Popadiuk...
...first real crack in the Communist facade appeared early last week when Kiszczak announced that he was handing over the task of forming a government to Roman Malinowski, president of the Peasants' Party. Jaruzelski never asked Malinowski to form a government; perhaps he calculated that Malinowski would have been unacceptable to Solidarity because of his association with the 1981 martial-law crackdown...
...reason to despise what had gone before. Hitler's father was an Austrian civil servant, born illegitimate as Alois Schicklgruber (Alois was 39 before he acknowledged his origins and took his presumed father's surname). Although Alois was nominally a Roman Catholic, he placed his faith in the whip. When the sixth of his eight children misbehaved, he was beaten unmercifully. Schicklgruber/Hitler died when Adolf was 13, a lively and artistic youth racked by the need for recognition and the appetite for vengeance...
...integrity or the depth of his commitment to Solidarity. Perhaps as important, says an old friend, Adam Bromke, "he is a man who has the courage to say what is unpopular." Born in the central Polish town of Plock, Mazowiecki (pronounced Mah-zoh-vyet-skee), 62, is a devout Roman Catholic with strong ties to church activists who oppose Communist ideology. A close adviser to Lech Walesa, Mazowiecki helped form the union in 1980 and was jailed for a year after the government crackdown in 1981. Trained as a lawyer, he is editor of the union weekly, Tygodnik Solidarnosc...
Silber feels that many students have it too easy these days, paraphrasing the Roman poet Juvenal in observing that "luxury is more ruthless than war." He chafes at hearing undergraduates speak of entering the "real world" once they leave school. "That is an expression of escapism," he writes. "It suggests that they were avoiding the real world all the time they were in school." He also argues that college freshmen, rather than graduate students, warrant special attention: "If more of our academic resources were spent on freshmen and sophomores, advanced undergraduates and graduate students would be far more able...