Word: day
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, you report that a "glacial silence" followed my opening remark at my Taiwan dinner meeting with Chinese Nationalist leaders, and then you say that I returned to Tokyo the next day, as though that were the reason. This is untrue and misleading. As I intended, my remark relaxed the atmosphere and we had a cordial discussion. I returned to Tokyo the next day to fulfill a predetermined schedule of work for my committee...
...this day of comparative prosperity and overconcentration on material wealth, lack of integrity and moral decay are brought about by the prevailing theory of many that "you are not guilty unless you get caught...
...photographers-and Ike, for that matter-had not seen anything yet. In a day and a half of Pakistani hospitality, he attended a society matron's dream of a dinner party (held under two huge, orange-and-black-striped tents that were floored with rich Oriental rugs), heard the eerie caterwauling of pipes played by a countermarching military regiment, watched Pathan tribesmen from the northwest frontier as they danced in wild, hair-tossing abandon, observed part of an Australian-Pakistani cricket match, marveled at an exhibition of tent-pegging (in which shrieking horsemen galloped full speed at tent pegs...
Babus & Bonfires. The welcome in the dusk that same day in India, where Ike had gone to fulfill a "cherished wish" and to "do a little bit of personal discovery," was the most stupefying mob scene since the death of Gandhi. It was getting dark as Eisenhower, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Rajendra Prasad began the drive from the New Delhi airport into the city. From villages and country valleys and the city itself had come more than a million people, who had heard about the visit from radios, newspapers and village criers. In bullock carts, buses and trucks...
...Germans as a darkly brooding people, this Lichtenberg collection comes as an enlightening influence. Let this fact be no determining factor, however, in one's interest in Lichtenberg. Though writing during the Enlightenment, he is definitely oriented towards the modern world. What Lichtenberg has to say about his own day is quite applicable to our own: "Man is so perfectible and corruptible that he can become a madman through sheer intellect...