Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans have been content to match Russia step by step in military development, meanwhile struggling to uphold their "idiotic policy on the China coast," Bowles stated in an address in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. He strongly asserted, however, that his party was equally at fault for "not standing up and questioning the GOP policy...
...India? As long as the Pakistani rulers do not see it fit to concentrate their own energies and those of their people on the task of developing their country rather than their army, it is doubtful whether the change of rulers will have done any good to the common...
After a sherry party with members of Winthrop House, Bowles will speak on one of his principal interests, the proper placing of emphasis in foreign policy, at 7:30 this evening in the Winthrop Junior Common Room. Interested students are welcome to attend...
...remarks about the Harper's Bazaar "literary academy" (of which Capote was supposedly a prominent member): "Critics have to make a living." The same was true, he added, about "all this Beat Generation talk. I read Kerouac and that other fellow, that poet, and they have nothing in common. Critics just have to have something to say, to write about...
Already Odysseus has begun to question, to doubt. To his surprise, he begins to find newborn sympathies with slaves and common folk. The old Greek gods have become objects of scorn, and what started as a mindless search for adventure has now become a journey of selfdiscovery. In Egypt he and his pals thieve and loot, fight against the depraved rulers and finally lead a ragged army to the headwaters of the Nile. There Odysseus builds a Utopian city-state in which marriage is outlawed, children are held in common, and the old and weak are left...