Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victory at the Polls. Stridently, the landlords appealed to the bishop. "That priest is a social agitator," said Daniel Perez, whose family has held the same land since the Spanish conquest. The bishop took heed. "If you run as a candidate, you will be suspended," he warned the priest. Zamorano-torn between his superior and his backers-decided to run. He won, last month...
...metabolically younger, it can go on longer before processes break down and degenerative diseases-arteriosclerosis, heart disease, cancer, etc.- take over. Not only is the life span lengthened, but the body is actually healthier at a given age than 50 years ago. Dr. Jones' prognosis: as the conquest of disease goes on, man may expect to creep ever closer to his theoretical disease-free metabolic life expectancy (estimated by some to be a ripe old 120 years...
Alexander the Great (Robert Rossen; United Artists). As writer-producer-director, Robert Rossen spent not much less time (four years) and probably more money ($4,000,000) on the production of this picture than Alexander did on the entire conquest of the Persian Empire, and there can be no doubt that, in some ways, his effect is even more shattering than the martial Macedonian's. The picture presents two hours and 25 minutes of continuously colossal spectacle in CinemaScope, Technicolor and stereophonic sound. There are 6,000 people in the cast and 1,000 horses. Several regiments...
...intertwining of two processes-the coming of age of a sensitive .girl and the coming of age of an equally sensitive nation-makes a compelling novel. Santha Rama Rau, who writes English (Home to India) with the flourish of conquest, portrays newly freed India through the mind of Indira ("Baba") Goray, daughter (as is Novelist Rau) of a rich and respected Indian politician. The story transpires in Bombay, in the hill country of the north, and among the elaborate Victorian palaces of the Indian rich on the Malabar Hill. Baba and her sophisticated schoolgirl friend turn their wary eyes...
...Diplomats. Thus, cleverly, Santha Rama Rau puts in a novelist's terms an Indian psychological dilemma, which in the terms and the person of Nehru irritates the West: just as the British were disliked more for their law and the incorruptibility of their lawgivers rather than for their conquest, so Americans seem to be disliked and resented for their quixotic good will rather than their "dollar imperialism." In the presence of envy, gratitude is impossible...