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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Foster Dulles: "I believe that the role of the U.S. is to try to see that that [anticolonial] process moves forward in a constructive, evolutionary way, and does not either come to a halt or take a violent revolutionary turn ... I suspect that the U.S. will find that its role . . . will be to try to aid that process without identifying itself 100% either with the so-called colonial powers or with the powers which are primarily and uniquely concerned with the problem of getting their independence as rapidly as possible...
...auditorium where advanced people gather to witness advanced plays. The current offering was The Tenth Chance, a first play by 25-year-old Stuart Holroyd, about a Norwegian resistance leader in World War II. By the middle of the last act, Holroyd's agnostic hero was beginning to find God in the extremity of his suffering at the hands of Nazi torturers. Up stood Christopher Logue, 31, a leftist poet passionately engaged in the campaign to ban the bomb in Britain, and shouted: "Oh, rubbish!" A moment later Novelist Elaine Tynan, Critic Tynan's pretty blonde American wife...
...Communist bloc or other countries." Announcing that he had canceled Tunisia's March 20 Independence Day ceremonies "because we are no longer convinced we are truly free," Bourguiba declared: "March 20 is the fatal day. By then we can see what direction we must take. If we cannot find the support of the West, I will be obliged to say that I have made a mistake...
Desai is a paradoxical figure whom most Westerners-and not a few Indians-find hard to understand. An outwardly placid man, Desai devoutly copies all the personal habits of Mahatma Gandhi. He is a vegetarian, fasts 36 hours every week, generally drinks nothing but water-although at a party, to get into the spirit of things, he will sometimes take coconut milk. His views on sexual continence are so rigid that he once boasted that he had not had relations with his wife for 20 years. Almost alone among India's leading politicians, he has never traveled abroad. Chief...
Whatever the cause of adult schizophrenia (which nobody knows), Dr. Mosse is sure that most of her child patients had illnesses directly traceable to emotional problems (though some had organic defects). Yet she has been unable to find a single proved case where adult schizophrenia could be traced to such emotional injury in early life. The "child schizophrenic," Dr. Mosse concludes, is not father to the adult schizophrenic-indeed, he hardly ever exists...