Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ismet Pasha works hard to be popular. At least 5,000,000 portraits of him, in formal evening attire, adorn Turkish parlors and offices. Occasionally the President drops into a coffee shop to feel the common pulse. Most Turks still prefer to talk about their late great dictator, whose spectacular personal rule has been replaced by Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey...
Market for Progress. Turkish coal mines dig only one-tenth as efficiently as American mines. Turkish farmers still have few steel plows. But everybody seems to want improvement. Perhaps the most important result of Turkey's uneven march toward modernization is the creation of new demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged...
Tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. brags of the world's most distinguished faculty-the authors (Homer to Kant to Kierkegaard) of the 100-odd Great Books, "the real original and ultimate teachers at St. John's." Last week the college added its first lady to the staff: Jane Austen. Newest Great Book: Pride and Prejudice...
Italian Cinemaestro Roberto Rossellini announced that he would get to work soon on a film portraying the life of St. Francis of Assisi (to be shot, of course, in the mountain town of Assisi). He will get artistic advice, but no performance, from his great & good friend, Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman...
...History is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfillment. Nothing exists in history to assure us that the great moral dilemmas can be resolved without pain...