Word: ferdinand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption to bog him down at home, is convinced that "we must change a whole way of life. We must do it or fail to survive...
...premiere of Paul Hindemith's first full-length opera, Cardillac (1926). The work reflects Hindemith's youthful expressionisms although its intricately polyphonic writing and its theme-the creator v. society-also presage such products of his maturity as the 1938 opera Mathis der Maler. The libretto by Ferdinand Lion is based on an E.T.A...
Dodge City East. The tragic massacre was sadly symptomatic of the breakdown of law and order in the Philippines. That breakdown is only one of the many complex and interlocking problems that plague the 21-month-old administration of President Ferdinand...
...arrest underscored the resurgence of an old menace that has returned to plague the 15-month-old regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. In the late 1940s and early...
DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The founding father of black humor in a new and splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose horrid childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred...