Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People's Congress. One subject not originally on the agenda caused the most heat. The subject: Tibet. "The Tibetan reactionaries," sneered Premier Chou Enlai, "often put on pious airs and express the hope that everyone will go to heaven. But they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique to carry out a traitorous armed rebellion . . . We want to warn the Indian expansionists . . . Please be more clear-minded; do not lift a rock that will squash your own feet...
Jules Dassin set himself a huge task when he decided to film He Who Must Die-- the task of showing how and why Christ, if He came to earth, must again be crucified. Fortunately, Dassin was given a good head start by the book of the same title written by Nikos Kazantzaki, an unquestionably talented author. His presumption, however, as well as that of Dassin, can and ought to be questioned, though not without honest attempts at an answer...
...merely to refashion their own styles, have turned innovators again. Le Corbusier's small French chapel at Ronchamp shows that the man who first put the box on stilts now leads in the move toward sculptural plasticity. Redoubtable Frank Lloyd Wright, who once made his houses hug the earth, built Manhattan's still unfinished Guggenheim Museum of reinforced concrete in the form of a giant snail shell resting on its smallest point. Even the austere Mies van der Rohe, in his proposal for the Bacardi office building in Santiago, Cuba, has designed a templelike reinforced-concrete building, with...
...well does Editor Carroll Streeter's monthly, 82-year-old Farm Journal follow that formula-telling down-to-earth stories in down-to-earth prose-that it has achieved an audience concentration unmatched by any other major specialized magazine; with a circulation of 3,119,366, the Farm Journal is read by fully half the nation's farmers...
Married. Walashan Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur, 25, grandson and direct heir of the 74-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad (often called "the richest man on earth"), son of Azam Jah, 52, Prince of Berar, whose "polo ponies and worthless wenches" were too much for the Nizam, who disowned him in 1956; and Esra Birgen, 21, a student at the University of London and daughter of a prominent Turkish family; in London...