Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...behaved like any other youth," the poor boy turned general says in fluent English, recalling the original conviction behind his career. "We wanted to vote and to be able to choose our own destiny. Instead, parties were banned, people were arrested and killed, and there was nothing left but to wage an armed struggle...
With Iran obviously in mind, the generals also pointedly castigated those "who would like to return to Islamic law," as well as "those who sing the Communist Internationale instead of our national anthem." They showed their concern, too, over events in Afghanistan, expressing alarm over "developments in the Middle East [that] at any moment can develop into a hot war." As one Washington analyst summed up the Turkish military's entrance on the political stage, "The soldiers are telling the civilians that they have one last chance to put politics aside and look reality in the face...
...visit Italy's capital of Rome, he would be undone by what the Romans do under a Communist administration. Communist Mayor Luigi Petroselli, 47, and his Communist predecessor have pushed forward a slum clearance program that has won only the enmity of the city's poor. Instead of being grateful, families that were moved into new apartment buildings in Rome from shantytowns outside the capital complained that they had to pay city taxes and electric bills. Formerly, the shantytown dwellers had obtained free electricity by tapping power lines. They also complained that apartment living made it impossible...
...organizers of this Royal Academy show, a team of scholars working under Art Historian Alan Bowness, have treated the period in an even vaguer way than Fry. There were retrograde as well as advanced currents in 1880s art, and many artists recoiled from impressionism, or were indifferent to it, instead of trying like Gauguin or Van Gogh to push beyond it. They are represented too, to the confusion of the term: if post-impressionism means not only Van Gogh's Arlesian canvases, in all their lambent color and twisting, linear energies, but also the eclectic products of a tonal impressionist...
...THAT TIME of year again. Time to gather up the books that have been gathering dust on your Harvard-supplied shelves. Time to be nice to all those people who took notes in the classes you slept through. Time to blame your parents for entertaining you over vacation, instead of letting you work. Time to talk about taking exams before Christmas and then realizing in a spasm of insight that you would fail. Time to put in your first appearance at breakfast...