Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crammed with white-suited politicos, the six-car caravan headed west from Havana along the broad Central Highway. At town after sugar-mill town, Liberal party leaders had turned out crowds to wave at Presidential Candidate Ricardo Núñez Portuondo. By the time he made his speech of the day, at Pinar del Rio, it was 1 a.m. "People are sick and tired of four years of Grauism," he thundered. The guayabera-clothed farmers had stayed to cheer. "Fuera-out with them," they yelled...
...stumbling block of precious independence is in fact a false and unnecessary obstacle. Change in the method of learning does not imply that students must be told what to learn. Effective or ineffective educational methods can be used with Eliot or with Hutchins. In fact, more interference from a central college authority is not equal to better education...
...rolling green hills of central Korea, a party of U.S. soldiers and correspondents stopped beside a weathered wooden post. On the post was stenciled in orange paint "U.S. 47." "That's Marker 47," said a G.I. "Over the hill there's another one. That's all there is to the 38th parallel. Just a few posts...
Whether or not Diplomat Daniels was right (some underlings in State and sev eral Latin American diplomats thought he wasn't), the unappetizing fact was that a dictator had been given fresh prestige at a time when pressures from his democratic Central American neighbors (TIME, May 10), had begun to threaten his 16-year reign...
Hyacinth, who has secretly sworn to carry out the assassination of the duke, begins to have his doubts about the wisdom of destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...