Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mournful-looking man with an unctuous public style, Arias himself has had a sometimes troubled relationship with the Bunker. As Franco's last Premier, Arias launched a policy of apertura (opening) that infuriated rightists, even though it involved such modest gestures as allowing free elections in some municipalities and the formation of certain limited political "associations." Nonetheless, he was imposed on the King by the rightists after Franco's death as the only possible compromise choice for Premier...
Last month, for example, 40 heavily armed men, clad in a variety of makeshift uniforms, staged a commando-style raid on two hotels run by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Buenos Aires. They herded 26 captives -24 Chileans, a Uruguayan and the Paraguayan manager of one of the hotels -into waiting cars. All 26 turned up the next day, many testifying to beatings and electrical torture in what they believed to be a military barracks. The refugees-most of whom left Chile following the overthrow of Salvador Allende-had been warned to leave the country within...
...certainty that republicanism was a function of natural law, that a new age of civic virtue was dawning and that an art of reasoned severity and correct classical proportion was needed to embody it. As William Howard Adams writes in the show's excellent catalogue: "Jefferson envisioned a style and form based on antiquity but with a purity that left behind history's corrupting influences of rotten governments, benighted rulers and unenlightened institutions...
...powerful ally in West Germany's Schmidt, a former Finance Minister who believes that combatting inflation should be the No. 1 priority among the industrialized democracies. By,contrast, Britain and Italy, which are lagging behind in the recovery, would still like to achieve U.S. and German-style growth rates as a means of reducing their unemployment...
...work, Sporkin's style is feverish...