Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There must be no more of this rotten practice of bureaucratic interference . . . Criticism, by all means. But let's have no more 'directives' from our bureaucrats with their constant worry about being on the safe side . . . let the artist find the solution to his creative problems himself, in the light of those vital tasks with which the party has confronted us all . . . I even think that certain works that have been turned down by the Composers' Union should be printed and performed . . . We must...
...turn of the United Nations to do the explaining. In four days last week, 130 South Korean prisoners marched dutifully into the explanation tents at Panmunjom. Their Chinese P.W. uniforms.betrayed their long years of captivity; they were faded by constant washing to a light robin's egg blue. Their minds, too, had been effectively laundered. All 130 refused to go back to South Korea, including four girl P.W.s in silk jackets and flowing skirts, who did folk dances as they waited their turn in the cold...
This mass of esoterica, however, (along with a good collection of who dunnits) is not kept stored away, unread and out of use. The intellectual vigour of the Atheneum is testified to by its open shelf system, and the constant use of the alcoves along the walls, where the books are read on huge old-fashioned wooden reading frames, under unshaded bulbs...
...Communist "volunteers" entered the conflict, he was moved south into North Korea again. There were no further interrogations, but the Communists applied other pressures. The worst to bear was the isolation: Dean was always lonely, but never alone. For three years, he saw no other American, was under the constant armed surveillance of eight North Korean sergeants. For a year he had no pencil, whiled away the time working out mathematical problems mentally. "If I didn't," explained Dean, "I felt I would lose my wits." For a time he had a Chinese checkerboard, but when his guards kibitzed...
Otherwise, besides ever-increasing military might, the free world will continue to face the problem of fighting the fear disease, which accompanies the constant threat...