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...Castelnuovo-Tedesco's streamlining, the evils of intolerance become the play's main theme. But Castelnuovo-Tedesco changed the sense of Shakespeare in only one respect: he omitted Shylock's conversion to Christianity on the theory that no man of the Jew's temperament would abandon his faith...
What worries Krim and the F.L.N. is that guerrilla forces traditionally disintegrate unless they are under constant military pressure. Should fighting cease, the rugged F.L.N. bands will be tempted to lay down their arms and abandon their mountain hideouts, thus leaving the F.L.N. without a military force in being. To meet the threat of peace, the rebels last week redoubled their efforts in Algeria with a rash of isolated assassinations and bomb throwings. At Miliana, 90 miles from Algiers, rebels ambushed a convoy, killing eleven gendarmes. At Sidi Aich, in rugged Kabylia, 14 Moslem soldiers in the French army deserted...
...argues, have imposed certain pragmatic responses which Western democrats may find difficult to accept, yet the West must accept them if it is to learn to live with the underdeveloped world. First, most of the emerging nations, many after a bright democratic start, have been forced by necessity to abandon Western parliamentary democracy and to impose a certain amount of authoritarianism. Second, all of these nations, seeking rapid economic development, have restorted, again out of necessity, to a good deal of governmental control of their economics. Third, most of the nations have entertained no fixed conception of international politics, except...
Both Time and Newsweek have used the statement. In Time, it was one of a number of items used as a takeoff for a plea to abandon the "nineteenth century concept" of non-intervention. According to one of the writers of the statement, the article is "a misrepresentation of our position." Newsweek devoted is full article to the statement, its main point being that Harvard was pitted against Harvard...
...History, such a major shift is the equivalent of saying that the whole Study needs revision. Toynbee even finds it now necessary to revise his table of civilizations, one of the key points of his huge labor, and at one point he blandly confesses that "I now have to abandon my previous construction of three distinct civilizations." In the same way he acknowledges that his list of "arrested civilizations" is "capricious." Moreover, he tacitly agrees that he forced facts into theories when he writes: "I have also neglected to try other keys where the Hellenic key has not fitted...