Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three groups of the resource leaders will then discuss "Requirements of a Dynamic American Foreign Policy," "The Challenge of Soviet Education," and "Religion and Freedom in the U.S.S.R." in separate one and one-half hour sessions on Saturday afternoon...
...Ambassador hailed the granting of independence to Cuba by Roosevelt as "part of the American tradition" of foreign policy. It was, he said, in line with the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon, and in contrast to the actions of the Russians, "who enter a country and stick there...
...evil, preaches Greene (as he did in his anti-U.S. novel, The Quiet American), can be caused by the relatively innocent. Wormold's phony reports touch off a vicious series of reprisals from sources never quite labeled. The enemy kill and hound real people whom they suspect as Wormold's agents. He is himself abused by Cuban police and nearly poisoned at a businessman's lunch. The deadly joke reaches back to London, where the big boys recognize their mistake but do not dare admit it. The end is heavily ironic...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...
...Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick...