Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approved by the Council were recommendations that the HSA pay its managers a salary instead of requiring them to head agencies, distribute the burden of its expenses better, improve its public relations and publicity, and select its managers as far as possible on the basis of finanical need...
...Visiting M.P.s such as Laborite John Stonehouse ("really quite harmless, except that he was extremely ignorant") had been completely taken in by the Africans, who "until they are very much advanced are all liars." When the hubbub in the House subsided, His Lordship went on to talk about the "burden, at any rate, the mission [of] looking after Nyasaland. I should like to say that the people in the Federation have not the slightest intention of surrendering Nyasaland to destruction by its own people...
...arrest for associating with African nationalists. Clutton-Brock is what he calls "a practical Christian," and his courageous version of practical Christianity, many African churchmen were saying last week, may be just what is needed to get the church out from under the new white man's burden of identification with colonialism and racial discrimination...
...firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster's Dr. Aziz and Evelyn Waugh's Emperor Seth burned with a hard heathen shame, Ganesh shoulders the white-collar burden with the happy ease of a born...
...then there is a western story-more often seen in print, but sometimes on film as well-in which there is neither a hero nor a villain in the traditional sense, but only a man, containing both Good and Evil, taking up the burden of his life and his times. In such stories the myth seems to discover what it may have been seeking all along: a way of rising above itself. The myth is transcended in the individual, the free man. In the freedom of the great plains the story of the West had its beginnings; in the freedom...