Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prodded his fellow Red lettermen: "The heroes of our fiction are drab and colorless creatures of abstraction. Many of our artists still lack the courage to write about the contradictions in our social life. They turn our rich experience into one-sided affairs, molded to fit an arid formula...
Last week, when the writers gathered again, Mao Tun was preaching the unabashed arid formula: "Praise the general line, the people's communes and the tremendous forward leaps," he urged his colleagues. "Unmask U.S. imperialism, which is feigning peace while intensifying war preparations." Production has been good, he said-almost twice as many works had been published in China in the past four years as in the previous six, including such lyric flights...
...office for the past seven years, the Christian Democrats have turned complacent, done little to redress the squalid poverty of much of Italy, become a flaccid party of petty corruption. The factories of the north are booming, and Italy is gradually developing a thriving middle class. But the arid south and the poor in the city slums have little share in this prosperity, and no strong anti-Communist opposition party exists to represent the dissatisfied and underprivileged...
...Ahmadu's bloodline runs back to his great-grandfather, who in 1802 carved out a Moslem empire through the mostly arid northern half of Nigeria. But Sir Ahmadu has brought off the neat trick of turning feudal domain into political machine. When the British called elections last December, as a first step toward independence, the Sardauna stumped the walled cities of the north in a campaign that included such innovations as helicopters, skywriting and more than one stuffed ballot box. His party won 142 out of 312 seats in the federal Parliament. Already Premier of the Northern Region...
...Radio Moscow keeps up a steady drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly refuse to follow the Shah's lead in giving up some of their property to the peasants. In recent years the cost of living has risen steadily. The nation's foreign exchange...