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Whoops-am afraid that TIME'S ever-diminishing pretenses to sophistication took yet another dip by way of its reviewer's baffling determination to employ ante-bellum terminology in his incoherent notation on the movie [Raisin in the Sun]. I don't have any idea what "Mammy" and "blackface" adjectives have to do with reviewing a motion picture, but save your copy; it is believed, in some quarters of the world, that the Herrenvolk may rise again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 21, 1961 | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...part in getting the new Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to meet American demands for more multilateral aid. The U.S. plans to ask Japan and Western European nations to contribute an annual one per cent of their gross national products to overseas assistance. The OECD, which will employ the world's best planning minds, will react very rudely to the prospect of handling America's funds through the old and clumsy beast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arcadia | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

...Executive Office Building, thus giving Johnson a fourth office to add to his two in the Senate Office Building and one in the Capitol. Kennedy also added another job to Johnson's bulging portfolio, appointing him the head of the new President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a high-powered group which can influence the cancellation of Government contracts or the blacklisting of contractors who fail to employ-or train for employment-Negroes and other minority applicants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Capital Notes: Mar. 17, 1961 | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...Slavic A will probably survive the effects of the story. It is rather my own course that is likely to suffer. What was said about my course in the article was trivial and misleading. The reporter confined his analysis of my methods and materials to the remark that I employ "such devices as insulting or ridiculing...students to provoke them into responding in Russian," and that we sing Russian songs at the end of class. I think that there are more interesting things to be said about my course, and I regret that you did not consider such material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIVATE SLAVIC COURSE | 3/16/1961 | See Source »

Katanga and South Kasai, in fact, are the only places where Belgians are a serious threat to anybody's peace. There Moise Tshombe and Albert Kalonji employ "retired" Belgian officers to fly their planes, train their troops, plan their military attacks. In Katanga's government office, every Congolese minister has hired a Belgian as an "adviser." The Belgian government argues that the military men are there as private citizens and mercenaries, cannot be called back if they prefer to work for the Africans; it also insists it has no control over Union Minière, whose subsidies make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: What It's Like | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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