Word: diversionism
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The samurai code of honor breaks down when they present themselves in turn at the household of one Lord lyi, begging for "a corner of the porch" on which to commit harakiri-a sham heroism often used by ronin to draw out an offer of a job. After the first...
No Diversion. To show how things are, with nothing subtracted for propriety or added for spice, is the sole aim of naturalism, the earnest flat-footed literary school of which Farrell has been perhaps the most determinedly flat-footed U.S. member. His career, beginning with his wildly successful Studs Lonigan...
Sir: It is sad that even now people in the U.S. consider Nehru's action in Goa as a diversion from his policy of peace and nonviolence. They do not understand that, after patient urging for 14 years, this "prince of peace" had to use force to cleanse the...
Thus last week Gamal Abdel Nasser and Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied at the console by the Presidents of Iraq and Yemen, formally completed the first stage of the Aswan Dam project. After 1,550 days of work, the laborers had finished piling up enough rock for the cofferdam to stem the...
Though the Russians, despite their equipment failures, performed well under difficult conditions, the real "heroes of labor" on the Aswan job were the Egyptian fellahin. Swarming to the site in quest of the relatively high pay (up to $1.20 a day including overtime), the Egyptians often slept under tarpaulins that...