Word: anas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domestic affairs.-The State Department insisted that Patterson had merely flown to the U.S. for a medical checkup. But as soon as the ambassador had taken off for Washington, a campaign against him broke out in the Guatemalan press. The semi-official Diario de la Mañana labeled him an old-school imperialist. The Guatemalan Labor Federation's leftist political action committee charged that Patterson had engaged in "a great imperialist conspiracy against the leaders of Guatemalan institutions." The windy press charges seemed to sum up just about all Guatemala had to say against Patterson. Guatemala...
...Walter, one of Britain's leading physiologists, does not think Elmer ana Elsie are entirely reliable tools for studying the human nervous system. But they have given him one good hint, he says. The human brain has something like ten billion nerve cells. Elmer and Elsie have the equivalent of only two, but even with this simple equipment, they give a lifelike performance. This observation suggests to Dr. Walter that the cells of the human brain may act in large groups, rather than independently. "In fact," he says, "it is possible that the brain may not be quite...
...FOUR-CHAMBERED HEART (187 pp.) -Ana'is Nin-Due//, Sloan & Pearce...
Even before Author Anaïs Nin (rhymes with bean) had found a commercial publisher for her work, her name was a password among the avantgarde. Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller proclaimed her unpublished diary worthy to "take its place beside the revelations of St. Augustine, Petronius, Rousseau, Proust and others." By 1944 Paris-born Author Nin had arrived in Greenwich Village, privately published three books, and decided to "convert and transpose the diary of 65 volumes into a full, long novel . . ." Like her other two published novels Ladders to Fire (1946) and Children of the Albatross...
...been reported under Moscow's suspicion and on the verge of death or demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers thought that the likeliest purge candidates for 1950 were Rumania's Ana Pauker (who was conspicuously absent from the last Cominform conclave), Czechoslovakia's President Klement Gottwald and Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis...