Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on TIME'S brilliant reporting of the incredible Los Angeles mess [July 15]. Perish the thought that one day the empire the ubiquitous Chandlers built will engulf us in the central coastal region that we smogless Californians call home...
...closed meeting of the 74-man Socialist central committee, Nenni urged that the party support the European Common Market and Euratom treaty (already ratified by France and West Germany). "We cannot compromise the historic prospects for Europe,'' argued Nenni. Pro-Communist leaders complained that this would reinforce "the aggressive North Atlantic military bloc." After a tough three-day battle Nenni accepted a compromise solution by which his Socialists would vote in Parliament for Euratom, but abstain on the Common Market. When proCommunists still insisted on voting against both treaties, Nenni threatened to resign. With elections coming up next...
...Rupees. Barefooted, still toting his guns as "protection against the lawlessness the central government cannot control," Singh stumped the peasant country, leaving a trail of crisp new Indian rupee notes behind him. Where did the money come from? Some said Red China, others said New Delhi, others said from King Mahendra. No one was quite sure where Singh's loyalty lay, but his popularity could not be denied. Watching the tight, close-lipped organization of the 27 men who had followed Singh into China and out again, some observers were sure that there were certainly Communists among them...
Moss has shown good taste, too. He has done most of the cutting in the central triptych, where Shaw's writing was weakest and most forced. The two acts of Part I ("In the Beginning") remain virtually intact, and these are really great writing and great theatre. In Part II ("Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas"), Moss has strung several comments by one man together into a short address; with the house lights half up, Professor Barnabas speaks to the audience as though addressing one of his biology classes--an effective solution indeed. For Part III ("The Thing Happens") Moss drew...
...Unity of a political area demands that the central government provide positive accomplishments," he added, "to resist the strength of outside ties and internal divergence among the sub-divisions...