Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, consider a college junior whose birthday is September 10. If September 10 is the last birthday drawn, men born on that date and classified II-A in 1970 would be safe from the draft, barring a huge war...
...Since his youth, he has fashioned a career from contradictions. The first-born son of a Spanish bourgeois father and an aristocratic mother, Luis became a brilliant pupil of Jesuit tutors. But upon reading Darwin's The Origin of Species, he started the opening battle in his long war against church and state. At the University of Madrid, he was an intimate of the revolutionary poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the genius-impostor Salvador Dali, with whom he shared two main interests, cinema and surrealism. Later, they made two pioneer films: The Andalusian Dog, notable for its explicit Freudian...
Once he had money and independence, Voltaire settled down to a cautious but often brilliantly effective guerrilla war against France's ancien régime. He was, Besterman suggests, the first man to recognize and mobilize that new creature, public opinion...
...labyrinthine as the author's best-selling Kremlin Letter, it is set mostly in Central Europe late in World War II. The adversaries are a depraved lot of American military and a handful of German exiles-who all want to beat the Allies at setting up the postwar government in Germany-and an equally desiccated lot of Nazis whose aims seem less clear, but whose posturings and preoccupations are more exotic. There is, of course, a doomed agent who is the pawn of both groups. The days of John le Carré's simple, cigarette-smoking depressive...
...straight furrow was all a man was left with." Thompson is typical of his generation. He starved during a childhood spent gleaning beans and wheat and picking up road-mending stones from the fields-at 50? for 24 bushels. He witnessed bloody horror as a machine gunner in World War I. Afterward, he was one of a few who helped organize a farm workers' union when the bad times came. Despite the union, the economic gap between landowner and laborer today in Akenfield is about what it was in Victorian times. With land prices above ?300 an acre...