Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese Communists' entire hard-currency reserves are believed to consist of some $300 million on deposit, largely in Soviet bloc banks-not even enough to pay the Canadians. To raise money, the Chinese Communist authorities borrowed a technique developed by the Russians in the hungry 1930s. Overseas Chinese, presenting hard currency in Hong Kong banks, can buy special coupons to send to their hungry relatives in Communist China, where gratified recipients can exchange the coupons for flour, blankets and hams. Desperate Communist officials are scouring the countryside for hoarded silver coins and old jewelry, which can be melted down...
...know that I have never built anything worthwhile," exclaimed Le Corbusier when, in the early 1930s, he was first confronted with these extraordinary churches, with their rounded, curving walls that follow the turning of the roads, their thick, often windowless outer shells looking like the ramparts of an ancient fortification, their arches spanning across narrow alleyways, and topped with strange pigeon-coop bell towers...
...shallow depiction of character place this book with Silone 's frailer fiction. However, the fact that the main sacrificial act in the novel is performed by a Fascist is significant as well as startling. It marks how much the world and Silone have changed from the 1930s, when left-v.-right politics was not only the ruling international passion but a kind of immutable moral law. The Fox and the Camellias is a book beyond Fascism, Communism, socialism or even humanism. It is a Christian statement, arguing essentially that all men are fallen creatures, but that none is beneath...
...dinner-table conversation; in few other stylized societies, even the cannibalistic, do men so assiduously eat their way to power. On weekends, the talk lures Fellows and former Fellows ("quondams") from all over England for "an intellectual Turkish bath," and sometimes All Souls pays a penalty. In the 1930s, when some of its Fellows were notorious architects of appeasement, "that disastrous dinner table" (as Lord Boothby put it) tarred All Souls with the ignominious brush of Munich. Long since recovered from that cabalistic image. All Souls today is a unique bridge between thought and action...
...hide. And in that case Latin American opinion might be quite crucial. Between their fear of pro-Castro sentiment among their own masses and the distasteful memory of past U.S. "interventions" ranging from the Mexican War to the Marine operations in the Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s, even some of the U.S.'s strongest Latin American allies would waver. Latin American governments therefore tend to wish Castro would go away or fall of his own weight, are not very eager to join in the job though opposed to him, and only hope that the U.S. acts...