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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNESCO projects use a different tactic for "motivating" their students. Instructors play on what they call "the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses syndrome." For instance, Farmer A learns to read so that he can learn how to use the bag of fertilizer the government has provided. The fertilizer doubles the autumn crop. Farmer B sees that his neighbor is getting more fruits for the same amount of labor. Farmer B determines he will learn how to read. The lesson is simple, the UN's experts conclude: give a man some reason to learn, and he will not only learn...
Under this pressure--not to mention the insistent wails of worried host Mexico, which has put millions of dollars into preparations--Brundage agreed last week to call a special meeting of the IOC to discuss the issue. It was a rare compromise on the part of this man who once said, "Sports transcend politics. It is an international phenomenon like science or music...
Small individual land holdings are the way of life in the countryside and give the people something tangible, no matter how impoverished, that they can call their own. Property, the home, and the family become a basis for life...
UNFORTUNATELY, the Chinese leaders seem to share the belief that the outcome of the Vietnam conflict is of crucial importance to the fate of the world revolutionary movement. This, in turn, convinces the American leaders that they are right. Commentator Donald S. Zagoria once explained that when the Chinese call the U.S. a "paper tiger" they mean "not that the enemy is weak but that in the long run he can be overcome." A Communist victory in Vietnam, the Chinese believe, will illustrate this principle at work, inspiring others to launch their own struggles. When Dean Rusk reads Chinese documents...
...deep, our girl Anastasia. She is a being. All the others are characters, shadows of her illumination. I call her a witch, but she is not a promiscuous variation on Sinister Madonna (the Hunter girls?), classic marble zombie who ruled with an iron broomstick. No, Desire tells of human witches and the witchcraft of love. Strange fires burn here, and one could look a long time without understanding. Apparently Anastasia is destroying herself. Others come to pillage, sometimes to help, and lo! discover that they have been deceived. No warm sweets from the blaze. In this parable of bad love...