Word: imprisonment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere of suspicion and vengeance was such that the Committee soon began turning on its own. Robespierre succeeded in bringing to trial a number of revolutionary heroes, including Georges Jacques Danton, who had led the movement to imprison Louis XVI. Legend has it that when Danton passed Robespierre's house on his way to the guillotine, he prophesied, "Tu me mis" (You will soon follow me). Within six months Robespierre, too, had been consigned by his colleagues to the guillotine, without any trial at all. His death marked the end of the Terror, and indeed of the revolution...
...Gnosticism itself, not in Bloom's bankrupt dramatization of it. The Gnostics envision a complete reversal of Biblical myths on the order of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In their version, the Old Testament's creator-God becomes the evil Demiurge, who created the physical world to imprison man and estrange him from the true God--who is not part of Creation at all, but an alien being to whom men with true knowledge, or gnosis, seek to return. The doctrines make provocative theology and a fascinating attack on the Gospels, but Bloom can't find enough concrete...
...foreigners. One person arrested was a woman: Fu Yuehua, 32, a human rights advocate. The Vice Premier was also evidently shocked by pictures of Chinese dancing the hustle with Americans on the eve of ceremonies marking the restoration of diplomatic relations with the U.S. last January. He promised to imprison those who "sold state secrets" on the dance floor. Since then, Chinese seen dancing with foreigners at Peking's International Club have been evicted by plainclothes police officers...
...time when Jimmy Carter's pious announcements about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to American foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...
...about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to Americam foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that Pinochet's junta murdered five years ago with U.S. government encouragement and support, the thousands of Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...