Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That many Asians are thinking this way seems borne out by the appearance, across southern Asia, of numerous military dictatorships bearing a similarity to Nasser's. The revolt in Pakistan may be but one example of a more general movement which has touched Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon in recent months, Thailand, Burma and Pakistan in the last weeks, and which may threaten the governments of Malaya and Ceylon...
Father Panchali (Indian). Director Satyajit Ray has produced the first cinematic masterpiece ever made in India: a stirring vision of life in Mother Asia...
Democracy is not necessarily best for the new nations of Asia, Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, asserted last night in an address sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union...
Emerson pointed out the recent "turn in the direction of military take-over" in Asia. However, the army, he observed, was sometimes a "progressive force" in a young society. He also noted that democratic institutions were much stronger in those underdeveloped nations which had "long colonial experience" than in the ones which had always been independent...
Under the Ford inter-university distinguished visiting scholar program, these men will be free to conduct their studies without any teaching or special research requirements. The three are among 40 scholars, scientists, and intellectual leaders from Asia and the Middle East to visit American universities over a five year period...