Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Varga's findings: 1) no economic reasons now exist for a struggle between Soviet socialism and Western capitalism; 2) there is no likelihood of a capitalist crisis before 1955; 3) capitalist states can, in times of emergency, control profits and regulate monopolies in the national interest; 4) in wartime, the workers' living standards in capitalist states rose 20%; 5) Russia's Eastern European satellites are a weak economic reed, comparatively unimportant to total European recovery...
...therefore it is hardly surprising that although "Black Narcissus" finds a deeply religious answer to its own questions, American religious groups have unanimously blasted it. The picture places a group of Anglican nuns in a remote part of the Himalayas, where Western morality and religion simply do not exist. Their convent has once been a local emperor's harem, their patron is the conscience-stricken emperor, who pays his subjects to go the convent, and the nuns are a group of mortals, frightened by the strange place but determined to fulfill their duties and to care for the people...
...poker. This proves to be an appropriate introduction to the household. Other inmates are the languid and effeminate Cousin Randolph, Jesus Fever's granddaughter Zoo Fever, and Joel's father, Mr. Sansom, who is mysteriously sick and invisible. Joel begins to think maybe he doesn't exist. But in the evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that his father is lying upstairs paralyzed, after having been shot by Randolph in a moment of hysterical terror...
...offensive. . . . U.S. imperialism today is attempting formation of a Catholic bloc round the Mediterranean [Italy, France, Spain] to form a spearhead against the Soviet Union. The Vatican, which claims to have been anti-capitalist even in evangelical times, when, to my knowledge, capitalism hadn't begun to exist, is now a strenuous defender of American imperialism. The Pope is hand in glove with Protestant Freemason Truman. Our immediate objective is to prevent formation of that bloc...
...weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...