Word: existence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey of current business fiction, is a "greater focus on the corporation itself and more particularly on the executives who govern collectively. No longer the villain of the piece, the businessman may appear in a variety of roles more adequately reflecting the range and variety of personalities that exist in the business world...
...wrong, but don't give in if you are right." "When are you right?" interjected First Deputy Premier Mikoyan-and the crowd laughed. Nikita plunged on, turning to the Western diplomats. "About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us. don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not. history is on our side. We will bury...
International Society. Hungarian-born Author Boros, fortyish, who during 20 years of life in Britain has admirably mastered the English language, herself spent years in TB sanatoriums. Says she: "Those sanatoriums just don't exist any longer. With all the antibiotics, the illness has lost its peculiar quality. TBs used to be a kind of international society. It was that world of their own that I wanted to write about." The result is no Magic Mountain, but it is brilliant in its way. There has seldom been so sensual a novel written with so little eroticism or with...
...Nizan felt that Egyptian fedayeen raids, more than anything else, brought about the Mideast uprising. These commandos, he said, exist for the sole purpose of murdering Israeli civilians. "Such a thing," he stated, cannot be long endured...
...Shapley first offered him an Observatory fellowship at a meeting in Leyden, Bok thought Harvard was just an observatory, and did not understand that it was also a university. Yet later he was to become critical of his Department and at one point say, "a university that does not exist for teaching has lost direction...