Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permit the West Germans to rearm only on the promise, offered by Mendes-France and confirmed by his successor, that there would be a new attempt to negotiate with the Russians before the Germans actually got their guns. Germany's staunch old Konrad Adenauer faced a similar demand at home for "one more conference." Most urgent of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan, whose instructions from campaigning Prime Minister Anthony Eden were to get a parley at the summit and to get it quickly-Macmillan was to announce it on a TV broadcast in midweek...
Miss Sarton presents Edward Cavan, professor of English at Harvard and a man dedicated to his friends, his teaching, and his ideals. But these ideals demand too much from Cavan and he demands the same from his friends. He is uncompromising, the kind of man for whom even the term "liberal" is a reproach, and a sign of diluted vigor. Cavan commits suicide, but just as he was too intense to live, he is too intense to die. His friends cannot turn their eyes from his vision or pry his grip from their lives...
...Faithful are the Wounds, Miss Sarton neglects such precautions. The novel has, for people who have lived through the event she describes, all the impact and all the pain of a newspaper account or a contemporary history. But Miss Sarton does not bind herself to the accuracy such forms demand. She can swipe out at the living and make her blow felt, writing as she does half from fact and half from fancy. Such writing is not satisfying in literature, suspended as it is between responsibility and imagination. An author's choice of this technique can have many interpretations...
...five other countries; a group of 100 congressional secretaries will sail in midsummer to escape Washington's heat. Last December American Express offered 19 Banner Tours to Europe (42 days for $1,225 to $1,645), sold them out by February, had to add more to meet the demand. Its de luxe student tours (54 days for $1,232 to $1.650) were sold out in 3½ weeks...
CEMENT SHORTAGE threatens to slow down the building boom in three key U.S. areas. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association reports that the 95 producing U.S. companies cannot meet expanding demand because of severe shortages in New England, some Midwestern states and Texas, where a grey market has started in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth...