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...lover Ike, With two yoke of cattle, a large yellow...
Sadoveanu's curiously dated writing style is most evident in Tales of War. Amidst a "hail of lead" and the "yelp" of guns, an army of "brave lads" heroically helps Rumania throw off the Turkish yoke. The time is 1877. All the soldiers talk like British guards officers. Yet Sadoveanu sometimes had the writing skill to make compelling even quite traditional reactions to old-fashioned war: soldiers' delight in a battlefront feast on stolen turkey; a young sergeant's awe at the presence of a beautiful woman in the convalescent hospital; the guilty confusion of victorious troopers...
...clear as he could make it-he was still in charge. Last month, in a marathon 3½hour speech to his countrymen, he accused the old party regulars of undercutting his revolution, of shunting aside his followers in favor of its own cadres, of lowering a yoke on Cuba. Cried Castro: "The only comrade who could be trusted, the only one who could be appointed to an important post on a people's farm, a cooperative, in the state administration, any place, had to be an old Marxist militant. They thought that they had won the revolution...
...time with anticapitalist proclamations. "My only commitments are to the proletariat," he once said. As an opportunistic Vice President under Jânio Quadros, he toured Red China, heaping praise on Mao Tse-tung's regime as "an example that shows how people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." Last week Goulart, now Pres ident of Latin America's biggest and most important nation, arrived in Washington for a seven-day visit to the U.S. A 21 -gun salute greeted him as he stepped from...
...Fatherland magazine for German-Americans in the World War I era, and in World War II was sent to prison for almost four years on conviction of failing to register as an agent on the payroll of Germany to distribute propaganda through U.S. mails; of a stroke; in Hoi-yoke, Mass...