Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jawaharlal Nehru works hard at the role of bellwether. He grows furious when Western powers ("these people who try to run Asia without us") refuse to accept India's judgment as the final word on Asian problems. And under his leadership India has become a Mecca for the increasing number of Asian nations whose foreign policies rest on the twin foundations of "anticolonialism," i.e., anti-Westernism, and "nonalignment," i.e., no commitment in the worldwide struggle between Communism and freedom...
...hidden meanings and symbols. In the last act, by having Miss Madrigal tell the grandmother: "You have not a green thumb with a plant or a child," the playwright tries rather painfully to impart some undue significance to all the gardening prattle that has gone before. I could accept the fact that raising a garden on chalk soil symbolized overcoming the obstacles of life, but any more detailed meaning seemed just too heavy for the dramatic structure to bear...
...money if you take aid from the Russians so as to help you avoid becoming a satellite. What would any sensible man answer? He would say to the Russians, 'Please give me $100 million.' Then he would say to you. Americans, 'Yes, I will gladly accept another $100 million from you to help me guard against the dangers of the Russians' $100 million...
...hence productive of higher living standards was abandoned. "If increased production is to be the criterion," asked Twentieth Century Socialism, "can we really prove that Socialist policies will be more effective than the capitalist policies which set the pace in the U.S. today?" The Gaitskellites were prepared to accept the theory of a mixed economy with public and private ownership...
...ambassador, to Washington, Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, who arrived in New York last week with his wife Alzira, daughter of the late President Getulio Vargas. Amaral Peixoto took a leave of absence as chief of Brazil's top political party, the Social Democrats, to accept the post. With Kubitschek, Amaral Peixoto and Lopes all working on an already well-disposed Eisenhower Administration, it is likely that the Brazilians will get much of what they ask for-something like half a billion...