Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a 38,000-man army and wide popular support, Prime Minister Fidel Castro has not been able to stamp out a diehard local underground, backed by Castro-hating Cubans in Florida and the Dominican Republic. Giving it another try last week, Castro elevated his leftist, anti-U.S. brother Raúl, 28, to the newly created Cabinet post of Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. Castro arms agents shopped the European markets for rifles, PT boats and Hawker Hunter jets...
...Forum's program will be filled by Gyalo Thondup, brother of the Dalai Lama, the exiled ruler of Tibet. Thondup, currently in New York to present the Tibetan case against Communist China before the United Nations, will address the Forum on the evening...
...avoid prohibition and punishment whenever possible, Dr. Kenward suggested offering a substitute for hostile and aggressive behavior: a boy can work out on a punching bag instead of hitting baby brother. But when devices such as this are not practicable, parents should not hesitate to use the word "No," and use physical means to enforce it if necessary. "Unequivocal firmness leads to far less trouble than hedging. Giving in to a child's tantrums or unreasonable whims leads only to more difficulty. On the other hand, some parents are fearful of the child and fear they will lose...
...Series, let alone allow just one run in 12⅔ innings for a startling earned-run average of .71. Son of a Los Angeles dry cleaner, Sherry was born with clubfeet, did not recover from corrective surgery until he was twelve. But Larry grimly pitched by the hour to Brother Norm (now a third-string catcher for the Dodgers), eventually developed enough speed to be a star at Fairfax High School. Signed by the Dodgers, Sherry looked like just another scatter-armed fireballer, once walked 15 men in three innings, had one losing season after another as he wandered through...
Primacy of the Image. The volume suggests why critics rank him with such movers and shapers of modern verse as Rilke, Valéry, Eliot and Yeats. There is a family resemblance linking Pasternak to these Western poets, but it is that of a distant cousin, not a brother. An occasional image carries the haunting echo of kinship. For example, one poem of Pasternak's begins...