Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were unlikely to make any progress on anything else. Yet more was involved. Today's armaments include weapons capable of destroying civilization-and this unsettling thought makes any rational statesman ready to consider any practical alternatives, even if he is not convinced that the choice is confined to common agreement or collective death (another possibility: continuing disagreement that does not result in nuclear...
France scaled down (from 30% to 27%) import duties on U.S. autos, electric razors, farm machinery. France is giving the U.S. the same reductions it gives its Common Market neighbors. Import quotas on about 200 items ranging from textiles to household appliances were also scrapped, and Pinay promised to junk all remaining import quotas within two years. Foreign-trade experts doubt that this will mean any sizable overall boost in U.S. sales in competition with heavily protected French industry...
...captured North Viet Nam uniforms, rifles made in China and Czechoslovakia, hand grenades and medical supplies bearing Chinese lettering. Laotian witnesses testified that troops attacking them were identifiable as North Vietnamese not only by their green uniforms but by their language ("Mau! Mau!"-Quick! Quick!) and even by the common rice they ate (Laotians eat glutinous rice). Ten captured Pathet Lao rebels admitted that from one-third to one-half of their units were filled out by North Vietnamese. But when the Laotian government was unable to produce any North Viet Nam prisoners, the U.N. team (a Tunisian, a Japanese...
Audiences have generally been disturbed by the sordidness of Jenufa's libretto (it hinges on the drowning of an illegitimate child), by the opera's harshly dissonant score, and its generally unmelodic vocal line. Composer Janacek derived many of his melodies from the inflections of common speech, caught them by prowling around with a notebook, jotting down overheard phrases and sentences in approximate musical notation. The result is that the orchestra becomes part of the drama. In last week's performance (which marked the U.S. debut of opulent-voiced Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn) Jenufa proved...
...asked him to let me go on the program honestly, without receiving help. He said that was impossible. I would not have a chance to defeat Stempel. He also told me that giving help to quiz contestants was a common practice and merely a part of show business. Perhaps I wanted to believe him. He also stressed the fact that by appearing on a nationally televised program, I would be doing a great service to the intellectual life, to teachers and to education in general by increasing public respect...