Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, I journeyed to Tokyo just after the war with a group of newsmen, and even then we could sense the profound postwar change coming over the Japanese people. What we could not see in our limited visit we learned directly from General MacArthur, who invited us to lunch at the American embassy. The farseeing general predicted to us then-in 1946-that the Japanese traditional way of life would soon become a thing of the past. How true his prediction was, and how well TIME has shown this in its pages...
...Washington, turned NATO's tenth anniversary into a resounding statement of support for a policy of no backdown on Berlin, no disengagement in Central Europe-"no surrender by stages," one NATO minister put it. "Not one handful of NATO earth has been lost," said NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad in Paris. "Keep...
...conference. Its outline, subject to some reshaping at another Big Four meeting in Paris at month's end: 1) the West would offer such "military concessions" as beginnings of disarmament in small zones of Germany, provided-a big provision-that the Russians accept inspection and work toward a general disarmament-with-inspection plan. This would be offered in return for 2) such "political concessions" as Kremlin agreement to make a start on German reunification. Both sides would encourage more contacts between West Germany and East Germany; the West would not recognize East Germany before genuine reunification but might...
...Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium): "Moscow is playing a game in which the ultimate stake is [our] very existence . . . We must, therefore, even more resolutely than before, intensify our collective defense effort, strengthen our political solidarity and extend our cooperation...
Clouds was directed against the educational practices of the Sophists in general, and of Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head...