Word: human
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tung nevertheless leaned over the proceedings. Perhaps Red China's Mao knew that his ideas would not prevail. Breaking the long official Soviet silence on Red China's "big leap" to create communes throughout the countryside in 1958, Khrushchev declared that Communism-the ultimate, classless form of human society described by Marx, Engels and Lenin ("To each according to his need")-cannot be achieved without first building socialism ("To each according to his work...
...boiling seas were choked with icebergs, growlers or low-riding chunks of glaciers, massive hummocks of pack ice, and brash or bits of broken pack ice. Nowhere in all that snow-swirling polar frenzy was there sight, sound or sign of the Hans Hedtoft and her freight of 95 human beings...
...miss poll of 500 Cantabrigians showed 52% against the addition. Literary Scholar Eustace Tillyard, master of Jesus College, called the plan "pernicious," added with scorn and resignation that ''mere flesh and blood do not reject the bait of a million pounds odd, nor does common human decency care to incur the odium" of insulting Sir Winston. Last week, while opponents kept a sullen silence, invitations were sent to 20 architects to compete for the honor of designing the new seat of science...
...slickly-staged job of Shadow of a Gunman, you wonder whether Sean O'Casey invokes the world's enduring sentimentality for the Irish to obscure the fact that he dwells on an incident that seems trivial, an incident that is sadly pale when set beside the heroic achievements in human terror of which people have proven themselves so capable...
Kirkland students have objected that the "actions" of one of the cats have resulted in a recent large litter--that she, like Warren Harding, just "couldn't say no." But these objections accomplish little more than seemingly to transmute a human virtue into a feline vice...