Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the school is closed, Lindsay Almond must enter into a farcical attempt to reopen it on a "resegregated" basis. In practice, this means that he must try to persuade the Negroes to withdraw voluntarily...
...last-ditch attempt to break the deadlock. Governor Sir Hugh Foot flew to London with a new plan to bring back Archbishop Makarios, the bearded, 45-year-old Greek Orthodox Ethnarch of Cyprus and leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for enosis (union with Greece). This would give Foot a Greek Cypriot with whom to negotiate. And Makarios might be persuaded to restrain EOKA's gunmen, he argued. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, who had a hand in Makarios' expulsion from the island in 1956, did not agree. He admitted that Makarios would have to be allowed...
Because Tanganyika's 95,000 Asians and Arabs and its 25,000 Europeans (chiefly British and Greek) comprise only 1.5% of the territory's population of 8,800,000, the British wisely made no attempt to maintain absolute white supremacy as European settlers had tried to do in neighboring Kenya and the Central African Federation. Instead, in a bid for racial harmony, the British allotted each constituency three council seats, one for each of the three major racial groups -Asian, European and African. Every voter, regardless of his color, voted for his choice in all three seats...
Also missing is the overwhelming sense of fatalism and general futility which fifills the book. A furtive attempt to recreate this by the hackneyed device of gypsy mysticism fails...
...doing away with what had long been an intellectual blight, a mockery of any attempt to put meaning in the word "tutorial," the CEP offered as a replacement a program of dubious merit. Whereas the final status of non-Honors tutorial is still in doubt--since each Department will have its own way of dealing with it--it is at least obvious that in time some genuine content will be given non-Honors tutorial...