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...same time, the Arab Legion, the King's loyal and predominantly Bedouin army, began a roundup of Communists, left-wing leaders and extreme nationalists, in an attempt to snuff out the Red influence which has helped keep this nation in seething ferment...
...Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on upper Fifth Avenue, which after three years rivals Town Hall as the city's leading recital hall. Taken all together, New York's out-of-the-way music-comparable to the busy off-Broadway theater-keeps the city astir with the ferment of new musical ideas. Some of the unusual and relatively new groups at work in Manhattan this season...
...through the Federal Government there was a new ferment, as everybody from Eisenhower on down headed the same way: toward a long-term concept of force-in-being that soon came to be known as the New Look. The key to the New Look was atomic warfare-tactical as well as strategic-whereby U.S. power could be strengthened while manpower levels held steady. The inevitable implication of the New Look was a re-emphasis on air-sea power (Air Force, Navy) and de-emphasis of ground power (Army) that led eventually to the Army's ill-fated "Revolt...
...wife and all stomach for his job. He heads back to his father's Tennessee valley farm to root himself in the pieties of nature, kinsmen, and feudal loyalties from which he feels he was torn by anonymous city dwelling. But in the bustling regional ferment to which Duncan returns, his attitudes seem romantic, antisocial and outmoded. The powerful dramatic irony of The Innocent is that its hero seeks serenity and is driven to violence, strives for communion of spirit and is hunted down as a spiritual outlaw...
...Find Good Things to Say." The anti-Russian ferment in Poland's press started out in literary papers three years ago, before Moscow's destalinization campaign, as a protest against Communist stultification of Polish culture, boiled over into mass circulation magazines and such leading Warsaw dailies as Zycie Warszawy and Express Wieczorny, In the past year Polish papers have boldly challenged Russian policies in every sphere, from art to economics...