Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completely opposed to the concession of any bases, military or otherwise, in our country to any foreign power." To underline his neutrality, Bandaranaike told reporters that his thinking was "very close to Nehru's." Delighted, the Indian press hailed him as the "conscience of the new Asia...
...religious and political liberal. He abhorred the "psychosis" of McCarthyism; he railed against any tendency toward clerical bureaucracy. Though Christian Century Editor Hutchinson worked tirelessly for some sort of union between the divided denominations of Protestantism, he still found time to write a spate of books (Storm over Asia, World Revolution and Religion, The New Leviathan) and contribute to other magazines...
Died. Paul Hutchinson, 65, Methodist minister, editor (1947-55) of the Protestant weekly, Christian Century, author (Storm Over Asia, The New Leviathan); of a ruptured aorta; in Beaumont, Texas (see RELIGION...
Moving from the cold facts of Peking's internal policy to the balmy realm of hypothetical diplomacy, Kuo proceeds to shed his objectivity like a topcoat. In regard to the present "power balance" in Asia, the author's unabashed delight in the pre-eminence that China has achieved under Communist rule often verges on the chauvinistic. Although Kuo admits that China and the United States came breathlessly close to war in 1954, when Chou Enlai's own brand of "brinkmanship" succeeded in "stretching the peace in Asia almost to the breaking-point," he confidently assures the reader that Peking...
...Director Rossen has marshaled it with care and passion against the stern Spanish landscape. His best scenes have the faithfulness and the feeling of fine color plates in a history book-King Philip's drunken dance among the corpses at Chaeronea, the hurling of the spear into Asia, the symbolic blow at the navel of a continent when Alexander cut the Gordian knot, the sordid grandeur of Darius' doom, the murder of Cleitus in a childish...