Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegations to work out formulas that a majority of the U.N.'s members would support-and that the Arab countries would accept. Only on point five did the President elaborate. A regional development program, he said, might make it possible to solve the Middle East's "great common shortage-water." With mid-century advances in water technology (see SCIENCE), the "ancient problem of water is on the threshold of solution. Energy, determination and science will carry it over that threshold. Another great challenge that faces the area is disease . . . Much more remains to be done...
...export to any country that wants them such newly freed items as civil aircraft (including turboprop), all kinds of trucks, tankers under 18 knots, industrial diamonds, all petroleum refinery equipment, all turbines and diesel engines. But for all their cries that the relaxed embargo was a victory of "common sense," the U.S.'s allies expect no dramatic rise in trade with Communist countries that have shown themselves so guided by political whims, so chronically plagued by a shortage of currency or a lack of goods that meet Western specifications. Though Britain's trade with Communist countries, for example...
...professor of church history at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Christianity has suffered serious blows: 1) in terms of influence, it has become a minority movement in the world, and 2) the faithful have deserted organized churches in droves. In short, "Christianity stands at the fringe of the common life today. It no longer shapes it." What happened? According to Dr. Pauck, the fault lies with the churches, which "have refused to demythologize the Gospel . . . They have lost the people because they do not speak to them in their own language...
...escape from a Southern chain gang and are hunted down by a sheriff and his posse. But from a stark, grimly witty script by Movie Newcomers Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith, Director Kramer makes a story of human understanding slowly carved out of two men's common violence, loneliness and desperation...
...Victor Gollancz's original foreword, in which the socialist publisher apologizes for the heretical opinions of his socialist writer. Says Gollancz in shocked tones: "He even commits the curious indiscretion of referring to Russian commissars as 'half-gramophones, half-gangsters.' " Such indiscretions should have been more common at that time...