Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sandinista-sponsored Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction. Washington's major worry about the junta, which set up temporary headquarters in a bungalow in San José, Costa Rica, is that two of its five members are leftists who may want to establish a Cuban-style Marxist regime in Managua. Hoping to ensure a more broad-based, and thus more democratic, future government for Nicaragua, Washington two weeks ago sent its new ambassador, Lawrence Pezzullo, to Managua and a veteran diplomat, William G. Bowdler, to San José with a proposal: Somoza would resign and be replaced...
Texas slang and an abrasive style produce a breakthrough...
...negotiating teams had bogged down in fruitless haggling over the agenda. At his first session with the delegations, Strauss urged the two sides to stick to substantive issues, and abruptly cut off digression. He later confessed: "They probably found me somewhat abrasive, pressing them harder than they liked. My style has a bit of impatience to it, and it's not totally uncalculated...
...books differ stupendously in their quality, but that's thoroughly explainable. V.S. Naipaul, who is the superior writer, has more experience. He has produced 15 books since 1952, but his diversity in style is more remarkable than his productivity. V.S. Naipaul has mastered social satire, essays on development, historical accounts and pessimistic novels about racial conflict and independence in the Third world. Although writing about disparate societies, Naipaul displays an astute sociological ability to muster and link problems common to all former colonies...
...only a fanatical desire not to do things conventionally. He uses scaffolds and shrubbery well, and borrows dark blue back-lighting and candles from his spring production of The Three Sisters at the Loeb. He also matches that production's inspired use of music. Burlesque is the basic style of David Reiffel's music for two, four, six, and even eight hands, and its use throughout does much to enliven the show...