Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would do well to go along with most of the rest of the civilized world (Russia and the U.S. are now the main holdouts), abandon the rest of such foreign names and call our wines after the California valleys and New York State lakes from which they come, rather than after French villages (Chablis, Sauternes), German rivers and the like...
Whether their revolt succeeds or fails, New York's Jake Javits is already issuing the call for a party meeting on domestic issues similar to the 1943 Mackinac Island Conference, at which Republicans set foreign-policy aims. The unrest reaches into the Republican National Committee, which as part of its rebuilding is trying to reach labor leaders disgruntled at the Democrats, has been hampered by recent antilabor broadsides of Postmaster General Summerfield and Commerce Secretary Strauss...
Inside Criticism. Standards at Carleton are high; each student must take at least two years of English, science and foreign language. There are no soft majors; in mathematics, chemistry and biology, outstanding students do original research. Yet President Gould is a scientist who quotes from Archibald MacLeish's J.B. without making it appear a stunt, and the humanities at Carleton-particularly English, music and history-are if anything better than the sciences...
Another question mark for 1959 is the state of the nation's foreign trade. To the delight of foreign countries, the new economy's huge purchases kept imports at record rates, though exports plummeted from a peak annual rate of $20.5 billion in 1957 to $16.6 billion the first half of 1958. Gold flowed out of the U.S. at such a rate that there was talk of a flight from the dollar. While exaggerated, the talk underlined the fact that foreign companies are engaged in a vast modernization program, which, with lower labor costs, will give them...
Wine Worship. As well he might, Belloc saw ruin coming to a divided Europe in the '20s and '30s. He was appalled by the Protestant aristocrats who ruled England's foreign policy and, he felt, knew nothing of the Catholic Continent. Things would have been different, he was sure, had the Stuarts kept their jobs. He decried also the English "illusion that the possession of wealth is an excellence, like courage, or charity." The U.S., where Belloc was a successful lecturer, fared little better; he called it "an amiable and pleasant lunatic asylum...