Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another unblinkered convert, sang the blues of disillusionment. Gandhi and Stalin is the logical outcome of his about-face: a warning of what Stalin is up to and a prescription for stopping him. It is also an awkward plea for Gandhi's "method of nonviolent yet dynamic and direct action which fuses the impatience of revolutionists with the scruples of idealists." Fischer admires Gandhi as uncritically as he once admired Stalin. Like the Mahatma, he "wants to improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year ago) brushed aside Fischer's suggestion that...
Under the supervision of Nina Mangravite, Radcliffe '49, who also will direct the Music I broadcasts beginning Thursday, the program will consist of orchestral music of the twentieth century...
Foster, who since last spring has been a member of the Album Board as editorial chairman, will now direct the yearbook's activities in conjunction with his co-chairman J. Anthony Lewis...
...Ignored, circumvented, obstructed, the United Nations still remains our great hope for enduring peace. Those of us who know that One World is not only possible, but necessary, must direct our efforts to strengthening...
Mexican politicos like to quote the law used to expropriate some $200,000,000 worth of U.S.-owned oil properties: "All hydrocarbons are the direct, inalienable and impressible property of the nation." They fight shy of mentioning just how much the expropriation cost Mexico. Ten years after expropriation, Pemex, the Government oil monopoly, still loses an estimated $3 million a month. To keep up Mexico's comparatively low oil production, known fields are being pumped too fast for maximum extraction; they will be exhausted in 20 years. Only a handful of new wells have been drilled this year...