Word: guardedness
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The Catholic Church made no response to FitzGerald's proposals last week, but they were hailed by leading Protestant clergymen in the Republic. In Ulster, Protestant Firebrand Ian Paisley railed that FitzGerald's plan would "in no way weaken our resolve never to come under Dublin rule." Catholic...
Fifty miles to the southeast stood Cuzco, the administrative capital of the 15th century Inca Empire and, to the Incas, "the navel of the world." Just over the granite slopes to the northwest lay Machu Picchu, a templed citadel so shrouded by mountains and mystery that no white man found...
Meeting him in a public park, Alejandra chooses Martín as a companion for reasons that he never quite fathoms. She is erratic, tempestuous, given to long, unexplained absences and indifferent to Martín's growing passion and love. She takes him to the crumbling family home...
They stand there, barefoot on the stage, until the director sends them through the compulsories--they have to show each part, and so there are 15 calves bulging out at the crowd, 15 buttocks, now 15 backs, and now 15 chests. And then there is free posing; the boys move...
The Mitterrand government will, of course, need far more than luck to implement its program of change for French society, but the Cheysson-Reagan exchange illuminates an important fact: so far as France's powerful administrative apparatus is concerned, there is less to the latest government switch than meets...