Word: slavishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the military overthrew the right-wing regime of Marcello Caetano on April 25,1974, Portugal's newly freed press was unanimous in support of the new government. That admiration became dutiful, if not downright slavish, after the government last March nationalized the banks that controlled all of Lisbon's seven dailies. A notable holdout, the Socialist República, finally fell into line following a takeover by the Communist-dominated printers' union, backed by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. Since then, though, several newspapers have openly irritated the government by publishing contentious statements from Portugal...
What is the reason for this slavish adulation of animals...
...contortions, physical maneuvers, and furniture kicking. During the extensive arguments and love bouts of Elyot and Amanda, the play's spirited and engaging cynics, the precise sense of timing turns insults, cigarette lighting, and record smashing into high comic art. At times, Arnott's exhaustive direction and his actors' slavish execution reaches self-parody: it is worthwhile, during the course of the play, to study carefully the director's Bolshoi ballet of sitting, resettling, and rising from different geometric surfaces...
...press is far less ideological. Continues Weaver: "The press can make its contribution to the system only by maintaining close access [to government]- a closer access than can ever be provided by law. The price of such access is some degree of cooperation and sympathy for government-not a slavish adulation, as it is sometimes said, but a decent respect for authority, a willingness to see government and persons in government given the opportunity to do their...
Convinced Marxist. The Spanish war also turned Neruda into a convinced Communist, though political engagement did not always inspire him to great writing: during the 1940s and 1950s, for instance, he produced a series of slavish, gushing poems in praise of Stalin...