Word: placing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place of this relatively benign view of America, the revisionists have portrayed a land of teeming passions and deepseated, almost irreconcilable disagreements. Some revisionists accept the class-warfare theories of Karl Marx; most of them owe a considerable debt to Progressive Historian Charles Beard, who interpreted the American past as an economic struggle between haves and havenots. Since most revisionists took part in the civil rights or antiwar movements of the past decade, they make an easy transition to a study of previous periods of intense struggle: the Revolution, the Civil War, the Populist revolt, the efforts of labor...
...Canadian on the four-nation international observers' team that is monitoring the war zone for atrocities, made an astonishing statement. "I do not consider it serious," the Daily Telegraph of London quoted him as saying about reports of widespread rape, "until ten women are raped in the same place at the same time...
...fishing. Tanned and fit-looking, Lyndon Baines Johnson left Acapulco for a day's deep-sea cruising in the Pacific, but not before sounding very much like a politician about to make a move. Mexico's President Diaz Ordaz was "my good Mexican friend," Acapulco "the place we enjoy," the Mexican people "the people we love." Does the ex-President really have any ambitions south of the border? A certain Texas judge was rumored to be acting in L.B.J.'s interest when he leased a hacienda and a Texas-size ranch (50,000 acres) in the mountains...
...complete poem for his first movement, choosing other Evtushenko verses for the remaining four. The 1962 Moscow premiere was an unequivocal public success. Government reaction was a different matter. Pravda treated the symphony with near silence-a grumpy one-line sentence to the effect that the performance had taken place. There were no reviews. The composition was withdrawn for ideological repairs. With a few lines added to the text, explaining that persons besides Jews had been murdered at Babi Yar, it was played again in 1963, then in 1965. Then it disappeared...
...twenty things ran everything. Things half spirit and half deformities: the head thing looks like Charles Laughton's hunchback only more so. Yessir it's all true! Conspiracy theories of history have always been tremendously popular for the simple fact that they're right. Bankers' ramps all over the place...