Example sentences for: paz

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  • In The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico , Paz drew on his reading of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche to explore the Mexican cult of death, the phenomenon of the macho, and explosive rituals such as the fiesta.

  • Rest in Paz

  • Is there an automatic place for the top consciousness-raising tracts of the fifties (David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd ), sixties (Norman O. Brown's Love's Body ), seventies (Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism ), and eighties (Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind )? A tempting (and sensible) option is to split the difference between influence and style by picking the top books about the major events of the century: Communism (snubbing Whittaker Chambers's Witness would be a scandal), race and colonialism (Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma , Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude ); modern art (Woolf's A Room of One's Own , alas; Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle , if To the Finland Station misses under Communism); and the Holocaust (with Anne Frank's diary likely to top the whole list).

  • The sample of infants in this study (n = 518) constituted about 1.3% of all infants aged one year or younger who lived in the city of La Paz and El Alto in 1995 (n = 22 671 + 16 579) [ 16 ] . According to data from the Bolivian Institute of Statistics, the total numbers of children under five years of age who visited the respective hospitals in 1995 were: Del Nino: 15 420, San Gabriel: 7 713, and 20 De Octubre: 6 331 [ 16 ] . No data were available for Obrero hospital.

  • References Anaya 1984, 1995; Arora 1981; Barakat 1965; Candelaria 1993; García 1992; Gonzalez Obregon 1947; Horcasitas and Butterworth 1963; Limón 1988b; Paz 1961; Rebolledo and Rivero 1993; Simmons 1974; Vigil 1994; Zinam and Molina 1991


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