Word: erraticism
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Behind most of these cheers lay the sense of relief expressed by a British diplomat who asked, "Can you imagine what the situation would be in the Congo now if it had not been for the U.N. ?" and promptly answered himself: "Intervention by the two superpowers and a dangerous clash...
Ragtime Rhythms. Born in Danbury, Conn. Ives got his early musical training from his father, who was a bandmaster in General Grant's army.* The elder Ives was an inveterate experimenter with sound: to get new group effects he would place part of his band on the village green...
Louder & Louder. While his blue-helmeted men stood bored guard duty on sweltering street corners and dusty village lanes. Dag Hammarskjold dickered endlessly with the Congo's erratic politicians. Encouraged by the mercurial remarks of Premier Patrice Lumumba as he wended his way home from the U.S., the Congo...
The White Hope. In Giuseppe di Lampedusa's bestselling novel The Leopard, a character remarks: "In Sicily it doesn't matter about doing things well or badly. The sin which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of 'doing' at all." Danilo Dolci, the erratic but...
But diplomats, who had once dismissed him as a demagogue or a nut, began to wonder if Lumumba had not known all along what he was doing. "He was sitting down there feeling pretty vulnerable," mused one. "So he mentions the Russians, and nothing could bring the house down faster...