Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru stood upright in his open black Cadillac as it rolled beneath triumphal arches through the villages and towns of southeast India. "WELCOME, JEWEL OF ASIA," the customary placards proclaimed as he journeyed, garlanded, along paths strewn with palm leaves. Yet despite the familiar scenes of adulation, he seemed distant, tired, and ineffectual. Speaking from a platform 15 feet above the crowds of illiterate peasants, he projected his own confusion. He is against "the Communists," but not against "Communism." He does not approve of Communist "methods," but as for Communist objectives, "I like them." "Does Nehru Sahib wish...
...information he needed. But special commissions, Army and Navy boards and congressional committees have gone through all this, and it is a fact that on Nov. 27, 1941 the Navy Department sent Kimmel a formal "war warning." He might have been more alert, might, for instance, have ordered distant air searches when his own intelligence officer told him that he had suddenly lost four Japanese carriers, i.e., could not place them at their usual empire bases...
Outside, newspaper headlines proclaimed the moment décisif. Long lines of Communist demonstrators stood stolidly in the fog and rain, and in distant capitals, statesmen kept anxious watch. Inside the Palais Bourbon, Premier Pierre Mendes-France wrestled grimly with the French Assembly, trying to drag France back into the ranks of the Atlantic Alliance from which these same Deputies had all but resigned the week before...
...hair-raising compositions, gets a stiff nod. Grove's admits that it "does represent a new means of expression." ¶ The diminished seventh, a foreboding chord much abused by 19th century composers and some 20th century organists, gets its comeuppance. Because it has four notes belonging to widely distant keys, Editor Blom recalls a reference to it as a railway station, from which it is "possible to get to any destination in the shortest possible time . . ." He adds, "It became stale . . . not only because later composers abused its sensational nature but also because as a harmonic device it represents...
Died. Eugen von Habsburg, 91, Archduke of Austria, distant cousin of the late Emperor Franz Josef, commander in chief of Austrian forces on the Italian front in World War I, grand master of the Order of German Knights; of pneumonia; in Merano, Italy. In 1918 Archduke Eugen was exiled from the Austrian republic for failure to renounce his claims to the throne, was invited back by Chancellor Dollfuss in 1934 as a concession to Vienna's imperial sentimentalism...