Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notion that the Chinese model of revolution is a kind of magic formula which will work everywhere in the "underdeveloped world" once certain buttons are pressed in Peking is a notion based on the same fear of the diabolical cleverness of Communists which we used to direct to Moscow. Not only does the strategy require the existence of a local political situation favorable to its success. It requires the existence of a self-reliant, capable, indigenous leadership willing to adopt and adapt it to local condition...
Undoubtedly, the regime's reactions to domestic pressures and problems will be more immediate and direct than its response to developments outside China's borders. But China also does react to a changing world environment. Once seventy percent of its trade was with the Communist world; in 1965 about seventy percent of China's trade was with industrialized non-Communist countries. Japan has, I believe, replaced Russia as her leading trade partner. Not one of China's leading trade partners can be classed a strong ally, and ten of these are allies or close to the United States. The rigid...
...three-man committee will then write a bill that would create a Cambridge Parking Authority to direct construction of the garage...
...During the same span, trade with Russia fell from 69% to 41%, nearly as much as with Rumania's Red neighbors. "Why should we send corn to Poland?" asks Premier Maurer. "So Poland can fatten its pigs and buy machinery from the West? We can sell our corn direct and buy the machinery we need ourselves...
...odds with Verdi the composer, the fervor of his convictions could occasionally inspire him as well. The opening aria "Let us be free," for example, is charged with the kind of youthful brio that was to come to full flower in Rigoletto, written five years later. Fresh, forcefully direct, the Attila score was polished for six months by Conductor Amaducci, until each facet sparkled. The result was worthy of a setting in any opera house...