Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack on Elath had several objectives. Not the least of the targets was Hussein himself; it was a demonstration to him and the rest of the Arab world that the fedayeen can call their shots whenever they please. The upsurge of violence was undoubtedly aimed for effect on the Big Four as well. The combination of commando intransigence with the Hussein-Nasser six-point plan for peace could not help increasing pressure on the Big Four to seek an easing of Israeli demands...
...Big Four meetings: "The Big Four are making good progress. I do not believe they will be deadlocked. I welcome their help and concern in the effort to achieve a just settlement. The major powers have every right to be concerned about the Middle East, since they stand in danger of being drawn into its conflicts...
...village. We still expect our women to behave. No decent woman would be seen smoking, going to the cafe or riding a bicycle. If a girl goes out alone with a boy, it is as if they had gone to bed together. If they see each other during the big Sunday evening promenades and want to get married, they have to ask their parents to arrange...
...When the big riots broke out last month, Ayub may have wished that he had jailed Bhashani anyway. Operating apparently on Chinese orders to start a Maoist revolt, Bhashani's well-trained party workers led some of the worst rampaging, in which hundreds of people, including a dozen minor officials, were murdered and many houses burned down. Bhashani shrugs off the violence as "male-ganimat," or retribution, which is condoned by the Koran...
Absurd as the charges often seem, they cannot be easily dismissed. No other nation has remotely matched the U.S. ambition of higher education for all. Yet, if enrollment has doubled in ten years, the results are mixed. One reason is the sheer incoherence of big, bureaucratic universities that allow "research"?much of it trivial?to overshadow everything else. Jacques Barzun likens the current U.S. campus to the medieval guild which "undertook to do everything for the town." The university today, he writes in The American University, "aids the poor, redesigns the slums, advises the small tradesmen, runs a free...