Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emerging Personality. In the face of this huffing, the young (33) lord, who in times past has spoken out with equal vigor against such revered national institutions as the Church of England and the House of Lords, held his ground firmly. "I meant every word, and I have no regrets," he told reporters. "Our monarchy is the kind that can be talked about like that, but if it becomes a sort of religious establishment that people cannot discuss, it will collapse...
...rest of India. Despite belated but increasing concern in New Delhi, most Indians seemed to regard Kerala's difficulties as mere growing pains. This suits the Indian Communist Party fine. Already in the state of Madras, and in Communist-oriented Andhra, teachers and laborers are demanding equal pay to that promised (but not yet delivered) to their counterparts in Kerala...
...Chaillot (La folle de Chaillot). Giraudoux wrote three versions of this play shortly before he died in 1944. Had he lived longer he could not have improved it much; indeed, the mad tea party is absolutely perfect. He never wrote a greater play, and only his Electre can perhaps equal...
Zanzibar Ernie. But in the sudden awareness of the fact that they had been given equal rights with the Arabs, and harking to the racial winds blowing over from Kenya, Zanzibar's black majority awoke to a new sense of its own importance. Once they had been divided-the Africans from the mainland, and the other blacks, who call themselves Shirazis and claim descent from Persian conquerors. The two factions came together under the leadership of 52-year-old Abeid Annane Karume, described by one local Briton as "the Ernie Bevin of the Zanzibar workingmen's movement...
...last week not only the lady magistrate but most everyone else in town had changed their minds about Jory's experiment. Living as equals with equal freedom, the Borstal boys got along so well with their Oxford contemporaries that not a single one tried to "scarper" (run away). The villagers even took them on in cricket matches and invited them to tea. Among their hosts was the objecting lady magistrate herself, who last week took a bunch of the boys off on a sightseeing tour of some local Roman ruins. Concluded Albert Clarke, a retired police superintendent and unofficial...