Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream of the Franks. The timing of convertibility was largely determined by the other major event of the week, the planned birth on New Year's Day of the European Common Market. The boundaries of this new entity are roughly those of Charlemagne's Europe (Charlemagne ruled more of Germany, but only half of Italy). But this new super customs union, among states which remain politically sovereign, has a power potential undreamed of by the 9th century Franks. The 166 million people of the Common Market nations produce more steel than Soviet Russia, do more of the world...
...French Medical Academy-Debré is a singleminded, fire-eating French nationalist. One of France's loudest opponents of the ill-fated European Defense Community, he has long been vocally suspicious of U.S. policy toward France, still opposes the idea of European political unity inherent in the Common Market. He believes that De Gaulle's mandate was not a right-wing but a nationalist phenomenon. He would like to see De Gaulle function as a kind of Roman-style elected dictator-with-a-time-limit. In this he is more extreme than De Gaulle himself. But as Premier...
CUBA'S latest revolution was plotted in gunrunning missions off the Florida coast, in elegant Havana yacht clubs, in the man-trying mountains of eastern Cuba, and in the hushed offices of leading Havana lawyers. The men who made the revolt shared a common hatred of Strongman Batista, but had notably varied backgrounds...
...knew what fun he could have with a satiric vivisection of the medical profession. Unhappily, he decided to do the two plays in one. The unexpected result: the comedy makes the tragedy seem pretentious and high-flown, and the tragedy makes the comedy seem at times no better than common bladder farce. Besides, after 52 years on the boards, the situation and some of the characters are getting rickety...
...Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history. Morros' other contacts were also personality problems of a spectacular kind. One, "Slava," was a psychiatric case. They had one thing in common: they were kept as jumpy as drug addicts by money worries (pay was never regular) and nagging fears of falling out of favor with "home," i.e., the Kremlin...