Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disarmament Measures Generous...
Discussing Kennedy's six steps last night, Ernest R. May, associate professor of History, expressed surprise at the addition of the last four to the United States' accepted position. He described the package as "an extraordinarily generous negotiating principle," because it deals with nuclear weapons, in which the U.S. is stronger than Russia, and because it postpones discussion of conventional arms, in which the Soviet strength is greater. Thus, he felt, the Russians would gain by agreeing to the President's proposals...
Rural Resettlement. The Malayan government hopes to cure all its national ills with a heavy dose of economic planning. Among other things, it offers some of Southeast Asia's most generous tax concessions to foreign industries. Aluminium Ltd. of Canada is planning a $1,500,000 aluminum rolling plant at Petaling Jaya, Dunlop has begun construction of a $25,000,000 tire factory, and a Japanese Malayan iron and steel plant will be operating at Lunut by 1964. A massive hydroelectric plant, mostly financed by a $35.6 million loan from the World Bank, is under construction in the Cameron...
Playwright Durrell sprays his plot with all the intricacy-and sensuality-of his Alexandria Quartet. Ignoring the popular tradition that the lady was the prototype female deviate, he makes her a sort of marine Justine. With the generous approval of her husband, she is a voracious lover of men, including Pittakos (who sends her a gold bracelet from Athens, still attached to a severed arm, in memory of their affair). Before the first act is over she has seduced Pittakos' twin brother Phaon, the diver who recovers the tablets from the lost city. Like his Novelist Pursewarden...
Anger & Pride. Then came Indo-China. There, once questioning an intelligent, Paris-educated national who was now fighting for the Communist Viet Minh, Larsan heard a criticism of France that was hard to deny: it was "too generous with us and too hard . . . too intelligent and too stupid." France was perfectly willing to pass on its culture, but Frenchmen were never really willing to accept natives as equals, and so, as in all colonial rule, "a moment comes when there's too much accumulated anger on one side and too hard a carapace of pride on the other...