Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faolain's provinciality has given his book a central defect and a number of gaping holes. The central defect is over-simplification. After due deliberation, he concludes that Huxley's books are too full of intellectual fireworks to make coherent points, that Greene gives an unrealistic prominence to suffering, that Hemingway is not so hard-bitten as he seems at first. These conclusions are all very sound, but none of them come as revelations...
Recommending that the areas of closest contact, such as the Middle East and Central Europe, be made into neutral areas or "geographic cushions," Bevan echoed the advice of Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, who made similar recommendations in his Godkin Lectures here last spring...
...said that he saw "no prospect for German reunification," one obstacle to neutralizing Central Europe. He continued that advances in long-range planes and in missile warfare made Russia "more disposed to increase relaxations in Central Europe...
Khruschev made a similar move last June, when he summoned the full party Central Committee to confirm the purge of Georgi Malenkov, Lazar Kaganovich and V. M. Molotov from their party and government posts...
...immediate area of possible disagreement is that Zarubin mentioned only the exchange of students, while the University has been particularly interested in securing Russian scholars, especially ones who could lecture on recent archeological excavations in Central Asia...