Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legally under the code they can. Humanely, as the Smilja incident dramatically illustrated, grave problems are raised in consigning returnees to an uncertain fate back home. Since most Yugoslavs are economic refugees, more than half the 4,852 who crossed the Austro-Yugoslavian border since the crackdown began New Year's Day 1958 have been returned...
Most Indians have no desire to go back to the home country: third-or fourth-generation Indians like to think of themselves as "brown Africans." Because of their devotion to large families ("If we have only four or five children," explains one Uganda tailor, "our neighbors sneer at us and say we are too poor to have any more"), the Indian population in East Africa shot up 74% in the past ten years. "The Asians," the Asians say, "are in Africa to stay." So far, the whites have grudgingly let them, but some Asians are beginning to wonder: What about...
...Never buy a gift from a store near recipient's home, but from one farther away so it really looks like a thoughtful gift...
Communist Mora came home from Havana. Denouncing Figueres as "a servant of Yankee imperialism," Mora praised Castro as a "man of profound culture and conspicuous talent, a true revolutionary." In Venezuela, President Betancourt's Acción Democrática party pointedly issued a statement praising Figueres...
Although he has presented the works of more than 130 contemporary composers, at 52 Polikoff still remains awed by the composer's function. In 1950, he recalls, he played Charles Ives's Sonata No. 11n Carnegie Hall and called Ives's home to check a detail. While talking to Mrs. Ives, he heard the ailing composer shouting in the background: "I want to shake that young man's hand!" Marvels Polikoff: "Think of it! He wanted to shake my hand because I was playing one of his pieces...