Word: arisen
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...Soviets have traditionally found it difficult to talk realistically about the faults and failings of their society. In the past two years, a courageous new voice has arisen to question the official pretensions of infallibility. It belongs to Physicist Andrei Sakharov, 48, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, whose own views are believed to mirror those of many Russian intellectuals. In 1968 Sakharov wrote a 10,000-word essay, studied with great interest in the West, that called for a rapprochement of the capitalist and Communist systems and for greater personal freedoms in the Soviet Union...
...management on the General Motors proxy ballot, University Treasurer George Bennett cited both his trust in GM's social conscience and his desire to avoid an all-out proxy fight with the company. Since his statement last month, however, the second objection has been voided and an opportunity has arisen to test the first...
...willingness to use it. CULTURE AND THE ARTS. "At all times," says Andreski, "weapons were the most advanced gadgets which any civilization has possessed." More important, states swollen by conquest can support a leisure class without which, the author maintains, science and the arts might never have arisen. He points out that technological progress makes its greatest strides under the prod of war, from the stirrup designed by 2nd century Asian warrior horsemen to the sophisticated creations of the last two world wars. From the 1916 tank evolved the bulldozing tractor. World War II was a veritable cornucopia: the first...
...Quarrel arisen between Pallas, and Jove, respecting the Force of a particular. One of his mighty Thunderbolts, the University might have continued Obscure Forever. BUT the angered Jove seized-up the disputed Bolt and hurled it with great Spite into the University's Computer Central, causing a vast Short-circuit...
...Equally contradictory is the fact that while the Russians and Chinese are pitching ideological woo at Brazzaville, the regime remains closely connected with France, its former colonial overlord and currently its chief source of foreign aid. Other uncertainties have arisen. At the new government's first public rally, the Internationale was played. Later, officials explained that it was not the new national anthem. A completely new anthem is being adopted. It simply had not been finished in time for the ceremony...