Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ancient Arctic. The archaeology of the Arctic, until recently, has been almost a blank. But as hardy diggers continued to learn more about the barren lands, earlier Arctic peoples are coming to light. They are quite different from the Eskimos, and they extend many thousands of years into prehistory...
Seven weeks in Indian cities would present a barren picture. But the heart of India is in the villages. There, Community Development, the most powerful answer to revolutionaries in Asia, is itself achieving a revolution of rising hopes...
...gradual warming of the arctic climate (TIME, July 26) may eventually make the barren lands flow with milk and honey. But as the warm temperature moves northward, its shift produces unpleasant as well as pleasant effects. Last week Dr. Rene Pomerleau, of the Canadian government's forest pathology laboratory, warned that birch forests are dying all over northern New England and eastern Canada. After a few seasons of unusually high soil temperatures, the trees die back at the tops. Already, said Pomerleau, much timber has been affected. If the dying trees are not harvested soon, fungi will destroy them...
...Communists started off by goose-stepping Red infantrymen before India's man of peace; then they made sure that Nehru met the Dalai Lama of Tibet, whose barren land Red China conquered in 1950 over Nehru's public protest. They took Nehru round to a National Minority Institute where the Communists produced students from "40 border regions." The Communists explained that the students underwent training in "political ideology," then returned to South Asia's neutral frontiers as "teachers and leaders." Commented Jawaharlal Nehru, who had come hoping for a pledge of non-interference in other nations: "Very...
...vitality and comfort of fortune and power as her lures, she holds behind these overt blandishments the artist's recollection of his past creations and the joy they brought him. In his withdrawal from fame and creation is the basis of his discontent, for the force of learning is barren of inspiration for the artist, and he neither is ready for calm perfection, nor can he create such an atmosphere as Arcadia...