Word: para
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goya shows that the civilians suffered in many ways: in "Para Eso Habeis Nacido" (This Is What You Were Born For), a man vomits on a pile of typhoid-ridden corpses, against a background of mottled, dark blotches. In "Enterrary Callar" (Bury Them and Be Quiet), Goya shows a mound of bodies, topped by a weeping woman and a man covering his mouth at the sheer horror of the smell. "When the French entered the city," reports an 18th century English journalist (quoted in the excellent catalogue by Eleanor Sayre) "6000 bodies were lying in the streets and trenches...
...organization of a summer job referral service, to serve as an alternative to traditional legal and para-legal opportunities...
...Institute is one of Radcliffe's nine major departments and uses one-third of Radcliffe's $3 million annual budget. It grants about 35 fellowships a year to women, most of them professional scholars, but has expanded its scope in the last year to include research on para-professional training for women...
...indeed. But if the reader resigns himself to the remarkable fact that this elephantine farce will move through five decades of Asian para-history without at any point touching ground or making the slightest sense, there is a lot of dizzy fun in the book. Edward Whittemore is more an engaging long-distance liar than a novelist, and his scheme for persuading literature to lurch forward is simply to introduce another freakish impossibility whenever reason's vague outline is sighted through...
With a planning-grant from the Ford Foundation, Horner added para-professional training--as a safeguard for women who could might go jobless in an economic crunch--to the institute's programs. She said in January, "I'm becoming an economic pessimist. I worry that in a no-growth economy we are encouraging women into positions that won't be there. The recession could backfire on women, and we must be prepared for that. The worst thing that could happen is that women who have trained for a career will come out of school only to bump their heads against...