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Most of the newly independent nations (and many of the old ones) have scarcely caught up with the 20th century, but diplomatic politeness makes it non-U to refer to these countries as "backward" or even "underdeveloped." To close the word gap U.N. delegates have developed a dictionary of discretion. Some euphemisms: Less privileged, less developed, developing, emerging, have-not, catchup, lowincome, needy, "poorest third" (used by Secretary-General U Thant), dependent, recipient and restless. Paul Hoffman, head of the U.N. Special Fund, is popularizing "modernizing nations," which seems to be catching on as the new vogue phrase. A still...
...Spanish women. More are going to universities than ever before. Man's traditional supremacy no longer goes unquestioned. Says a shrewd Spaniard: "When does a man work best? When he is pushed by women. In Spain, the women are beginning to push the men.'' Still Backward. Occasionally Franco contributes an article on economics to a Madrid journal, signing his pieces "Hispanicus," and he takes full credit for Spain's economic progress. Actually, much of the credit belongs to huge injections of cash and advice from abroad. Start of the money flow came even before Franco agreed...
Spain is still painfully backward and depressed. On the edge of Madrid, the gritty Puente de Vallecas district is called "Little Russia" by its occupants-street cleaners, ditchdiggers and the like, who earn as little as 60? a day and live in a smelly maze of shacks. Beyond, in the open country, are the peasants who work the huge holdings of absentee landlords for a pittance; in Spain, one-hundredth of the population still owns half of the land. Five million Spanish peasants use no mechanized farm tools at all; as they helped bring in the harvest last week, they...
...Stickney Township, on the outskirts of Chicago, kids who never heard of Dentist Raper (see above) may soon be using his arguments to browbeat their parents into serving backward meals. For Stickney eighth-graders have just had a colorful demonstration of what sugar left in the mouth may mean...
...fail"--and here he deliberately rejects E.H. Carr's recently published ideas--"are often just as interesting as those who triumph." At the moment Joll is beginning a study of "people who have gone under," anarchists, trying to find out "why there have been anarchist movements, whether anarchism is backward looking, or political Bohemianism or what." If, he says, any thing connected his three intellectuals, it was concern with industrial society, centralised states, and so forth; and the anarchists have after all "gone farthest in repudiating the whole thing." Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and those "wildly and apocalyptically optimistic" Spanish anarchists...