Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for Peng Teh-huai, most of last week's casualties were second-level officials of the Foreign Office and other non-military departments. Their crime seems to have been "rightist opportunism," Communist jargon for those who argued that Red China's economic leap forward should be executed in slower and more orderly fashion. Though Peking is now grudgingly "tidying up the communes," discarding the wasteful backyard pig iron furnaces and giving its weary and befuddled population something of a breathing spell, it cannot admit failure. Neither can Red China's top leaders, still apparently unaffected...
...years in the House of Commons. But Socialist Morrison would not have to leave Westminster after all. As Parliament dissolved, Queen Elizabeth's dissolution honors list awarded a lifetime peerage to the London bobby's son who became wartime Home Secretary, later Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in the postwar Labor government. The new lord had no idea what new name he would choose. "I'll still be the same Herbie Morrison...
...past generation of balletgoers, Robbins is doing now. [He] is evolving the valid balletic idiom of today." And the Guardian's James Monaghan, after rapping the Royal Ballet for its "ivory-towered conception of the dance," concluded that what Robbins had brought to town was "the best foreign ballet by far that London has ever seen...
...West and primarily of whites." But Eastern religions, once passive, are showing renewed vitality and missionary zeal. "A revived Christian evangelism reasserting its 'Great Commission' to convert, and hence to dissolve, all other faiths, will not only embarrass America before the world; it will undercut our foreign policy and lend new fuel to the appeal of Communism in the East . . . Let us stand separately for our various truths. Let us stand together for the peace of society. Let us not do to one another that which is hateful to any of us. And let us await the judgment...
...term specialization, emphasize principles that endure through technological changes. Oakland will offer degrees in only four fields: liberal arts, engineering, business, teaching. Every student will devote half his time to humanities, spend a full year studying the Far East, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Engineers must master one foreign language, preferably Russian, and all seniors will take a "great issues" course together...