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Mr Downer's history war.(History)(Lecture about freedom)
ON MAY 15, Alexander Downer delivered a lecture at the University of New England on Australian foreign and military policy. The dust quickly settled on what was a quite controversial contribution to what should be a continuous dialogue. But the minister's critics, and they were potentially numerous, almost completely failed to take the opportunity to discuss or debate. They seemed out of their depth, so, using a familiar exit strategy, fell back upon personal abuse of an essentially self-demeaning kind. The minister had given them an argument but, apparently, he couldn't give them an intelligence.
The occasion of the lecture was to celebrate the life and career of ...
- HEDY'S BRAINWAVE; Screen goddess HEDY LAMARR was not just a Hollywood pinup....
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) February 5, 2005 700+ words
...late. Still hooked on the uppers and downers fed to her by the film studios in her...being a mother.' With the outbreak of World War II, Lamarr recalled conversations she...Hollywood got her hooked on uppers and downers. She took pills right up to the end...
- World War II hero to be buried 57 years after flying last mission.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Kunz, Tona November 29, 2001 700+ words
...Veterans from Aurora, Montgomery and Batavia will greet her at a 7 p.m. Thursday memorial service at Healy Chapel, 332 W. Downer Place, Aurora. The homecoming comes too late for Arthur's parents, but a new group of relatives he never met will come...
- DOWNER.(Obit)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) October 29, 2004 700+ words
Theodore J. "Ted" Downer October 27, 2004 Theodore J. "Ted" Downer, 81, of 210 East Hickory...retiring in 1985. Ted was a World War II veteran, serving overseas...children, Douglas and Julie Downer of Chittenango, and Debra...
- Robert Harvey, retired Downers Grove teacher
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Philip Franchine September 19, 1986 700+ words
...rights as past president of the Downers Grove Human Relations Council...Homes of Private Enterprise, a Downers Grove agency that sought to...agent, is vice chairman of the Downers Grove Township Democratic Organization...Italy and North Africa during World War II. Survivors, in addition...
- Howard, Downer and the Liberals' realist tradition.(foreign policy realism )
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Smith, Gary Lowe, David September 1, 2005 700+ words
...additional strength to alliances, foreign policies after the Second World War were not premised on the existence of some special bond, nostalgia...Liberals' heightened perception of threats posed after the Second World War by communism, their greater scepticism over the value of any...
- Sales up for downers: tales of terrorists, wartime atrocities and vampires make...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Meza, Ed September 5, 2008 700+ words
...English-language and Latin American territories, and "Lilly the Witch," director Stefan Ruzowitzky's follow-up to his World War II hit "The Counterfeiters" and based on the popular children's books of German scribe Knister. As competition for local...
- SUN DOWNER; Darley up against the stats in Ces.(Sport)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) October 13, 2009 700+ words
...for a member of the Classic generation. The last winner from that division was Spirit Of Love in 1998 and since the end of World War II, only 15 winners have aged three. A neck runner-up to Askar Tau in the Group Two Doncaster Cup, Simcock goes into the...
- `Cold Spring Harbor' is downer No. 9 from Yates
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Lloyd Sachs September 14, 1986 700+ words
...Cold Spring Harbor is Yates' ninth book. Set in the small and storied Long Island town of the title during the beginning of World War II, it spreads its gloom with the usual Yates matter-of-factness, depending not on significant events to shake down illusions...