Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communists exist because the people permit, support and wholeheartedly fight with them," reported U.S. Foreign Service Officer John Stewart Service from China in 1944. "The common people for the first time have been given something to fight for." In this situation, said Service, the U.S. ought to alter its policy of supporting the Chinese Nationalist government lest it drive the Chinese Communists into the arms of the Kremlin. Last week, years after his favorable view of Chinese Communism was proved tragically wrong, Service, 48, was back at work in the State Department...
...Haiti's Dr. Louis Mars reported that in his country schizophrenia accounts for one-third of all psychoses (again a low proportion compared to the West), with the paranoid form most common. Haiti's peasants rarely develop schizophrenia, but those who do, show in their delusions "a cultural African content with the gods and devils of the old black continent." The disease is most often seen among the economically and culturally unstable fringes of the middle class in the towns, and these people in their mental disturbances "evoke the Christian god, electricity, radio and other elements of Western...
Unity Road is a sensible vision conceived by Mehdi ben Barka. bright-eyed young (37) president of Morocco's Consultative Assembly. Brought to the U.S. by the State Department last March to see whatever he wanted, Ben Barka did not succumb to the common delusion that the U.S. is a chrome-spun nation so rich that its experience can have no relevance to the problems of other peoples. He took a look at Manhattan and Washington. D.C., but was more particularly interested in Arizona's irrigated cotton fields and in Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap," the imaginative...
...Style means good taste. One example of common bad taste is making a double bed too feminine. A bed isn't only a place for voluptuousness. It is a place where you want to sleep soundly, heavily, in contrast with delicacy. It is the place where at times you will be sick, when you want comfort, not refinement. It is the place where you will want to die. when you want majesty, not daintiness. What woman worthy of the name wants to see her man sleep in lace...
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