Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first great fresco painter, is represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips to enjoin the monks to silence...
...Your article "A Savage Challenge to Détente" [Aug. 30] made some rather flaccid remarks about American "legitimate spheres of influence" and the soundness of armed intervention in Southeast Asia and the Dominican Republic. But détente is a two-way arrangement. If we feel free to make war in a small country on the other side of the world, using as our excuse the "threat" of external subversion, then I think we're asking too much of the Russians if we expect them to restrain themselves whenever they believe their "legitimate spheres of influence" are endangered...
...first editors in the country to demand that his writers treat Negroes fairly in their stories. At the end of World War I he became managing editor of The Nation, used the magazine's liberal platform to rail against U.S. imperialism in Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and champion recognition of Mexico's revolutionary Obregon regime...
...myopia." Yet the question deserved to be considered. Here and there in Washington, amid genuine indignation, there was also an occasional flicker of professional sympathy for Russia, as between one world power and another ("There are, after all, not many in the club," said one official). In both the Dominican Republic and Viet Nam, the U.S. intervened in what it con sidered a legitimate sphere of influence. But in the Dominican Republic, the government had been ousted and civil war threatened anarchy and, quite possibly, a new dictatorship. The U.S. intervention restored peace, saved lives, and resulted finally...
...Russian invasion, in fact, embarrassed Communists most in areas where local feeling runs high against foreign intervention and where the Communists themselves had pounded away hardest at U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. Throughout Asia, Communists felt uncomfortable about the Russian actions. With the exception of Castro's party in Cuba, Latin American Communists broke with Moscow. But the most agonized reaction of all came from the Communist parties of Western Europe. In the early 1950s, the Western European parties abandoned their revolutionary tactics and went respectable. Since then, they have been trying, with only...