Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was going on was an unparalleled historic phenomenon which some in Britain, greatest of the West's colonial powers, like to call "creative abdication"'(to the unconcealed horror of diehard imperialists, who see only retreat). In places where British governments and proconsuls had bungled, "creative abdication" was...
Conspicuous Stage. The outlook was brighter, and the Western principals of the Middle East drama underscored Ike's deliberate low-pressure calmness by going about other duties. The U.N. General Assembly felt able to adjourn; Secretary of State Dulles felt able to take off for faraway Australia for a...
Kaye, whose appearance for the Forum follows that of Al Capp last Saturday, will be introduced by Louis Loss, professor of Law. The comedian and his company are currently appearing at the Colonial Theatre in Boston.
Dostoevsky with Gin. The British run justice, administration and the drains, but they have the dead feeling that they are only caretakers for the Chinese and Indian merchants who run the rackets. The new sahibs come from unstately homes (with names like Kosy Kot) in dim English suburbs. They never...
Author Mary McMinnies, herself a charter mem-sahib (as wife of a Foreign Service official in Malaya), has a cold Waugh eye and ear for colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some...