Word: hive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once Japan is defeated militarily, what then? There are two points of view. One, to which Washington lends an attentive ear, has been best expressed by Under Secretary of State Joseph Clark Grew, who for ten years was U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. He compares Japanese society to a hive, the Emperor to the queen bee. There comes a time when the queen is thrust out. The hive follows her to its new home. "It was not the queen which made the decision; yet, if one were to remove the queen from the swarm, the hive would disintegrate...
South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts has also tried for years to temper the country's harsh anti-Indian color laws. The latest of them, which has caused South Africa's voteless Indians to hum like a swarming hive, is a Natal ordinance dividing the whole province into Jim Crow residential zones. Smuts...
Between the years 1920 and 1940, Eu rope suffered a spiritual agony unparalleled since the French Revolution. But readers are not likely to discover that fact from Heart of Europe. In part this is because the editors, suffering the handi caps of space and copyright that usually beset anthologists, hive included only fragments of each author's work. Marcel Proust, whose Remembrance of Things Past totals 2,265 pages, is represented by five pages ("The Death of Bergotte") from his The Captive. Andre Gide is rep resented by six pages from Les Nouvelles Nourritures. Thomas Mann contributes 13 pages...
Beekeeping is a low-cost cinch, for a hive of bees requires only eight hours of care annually, as compared with an hour and a half daily for the family cow. And two or three mature doe rabbits will keep rabbit meat flowing to the table with almost beltline regularity...
...Miss Bergman again said, no thank you. But this sort of talk suddenly dazzled David Selznick with a new, if incredible, idea. The idea was that Miss Bergman meant precisely what she said. She was genuinely less interested in becoming one of the apotheosized queen bees in the dream hive of millions, less interested even in great wealth, than she was in getting good parts and doing them as well as she knew how without interference. That, accordingly, was the only basis on which to approach her. And on that basis, for twelve months, David Selznick sedulously stalked his prey...