Word: fanaticisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know...
Ahmed Naguib el Hilaly Pasha, 60, a mild-spoken man with a deceptive Milquetoast look, is an open enemy of Wafdist graft, an ex-member of the Wafd executive committee who was drummed out of the party only a few months ago for fighting the wholesale corruption from within. Scion...
The Greek government guessed that the trial, a court-martial instead of a civil proceeding under terms of a 1936 Greek law, would last a month. It would prove "highly instructive," promised Interior Minister Constantine Rendis, "to all countries which have not so far experienced the activities of an ... organization...
The script, by Huston and James Agee, is faithful to the spirit of C. S. Forester's 1935 novel. Bogart, cast as a Canadian instead of a Cockney, does the best acting of his career as the badgered rumpot who becomes a man and a lover against his will...
Teheran voters last week gave Premier Mohammed Mossadegh his newest triumph. In three days of balloting for the Majlis, they elected eleven of Mossadegh's twelve National Front candidates, crushed the threat of the Communist Tudeh Party and whipped his No. 1 parliamentary opponent, wealthy landlord Jamal Imami. The...