Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they looked over Nkrumah's guest list, some London officials dubbed the affair "a conference of conspirators," and the Paris press was openly gloomy about the future of France's former territories, two more of which-the rich Ivory Coast and little Dahomey-last week chose autonomy within the French community. Said Le Figaro solemnly: "A grim race is joined between the French-African community and the countries who swirl in the orbit of 'positive neutralism...
...three musketeers of modernity. Mayakovsky's poetry was like a shot in the streets. He became the Bolshevik poet laureate; but Big Brother's embrace was crushing, and in the end he killed himself. In his book Safe Conduct, Pasternak conjures up "our State" as the "stone guest" at the funeral. Esenin (who was married for a time to Dancer Isadora Duncan) was an untutored rustic songbird, who pined away in the Soviet cage and also died by his own hand...
...Steve Allen Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Guest (on film) Ingrid Bergman is all sweetness and Guest Jonathan Winters one of the weirdest, wittiest lights shining; Allen himself splits the difference. Color...
...guest of Winthrop House by the grace of a Ford Foundation donation, Chester Bowles brought to many undergratuates an optimism and intelligence uncommon today among America's spokesmen. But Bowles would undoubtedly be the first to prick this balloon we have inflated in his honor, for his is a quiet humility which understands that being human means being imperfect...
Wild answered a proposal by H. Christopher Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Guest Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, saying that he would approve of a Christian culture course "with other alternatives." He said that students should have an opportunity to learn about the cultures of other religions as well...