Word: imperiale
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Land of Contrast. Among this year's 435 contests for the U.S. House of Representatives, none can match in flamboyance the three-way combination of Jackie, the Hindu judge and the sprawling California 29th congressional district that they are fighting for. The 2gth, undisputed preserve of G.O.P. Congressman John...
The campaign is as hot as the sun. Saund's Democratic partisans frequently refer to Jackie as "that woman"; Jackie's friends call Saund "that Hindu." Jackie's forces have not been above making an issue of Saund's race and religion, and Jackie publicly wonders...
The United States would presumably find a world government run by the Russians and Chinese as unacceptable as the latter would find one run by the major NATO powers, and the anti-colonialists would not be greatly attracted to a world government controlled by their former imperial overlords. Rupert Emerson...
To the end of his days Herzen prayed for the hopes of revolution-and yet, in Paris, he was dismayed when the revolution of 1848 degenerated, with soldiers of a republic shooting down its own citizens. With almost lyrical sarcasm ("Long live chaos and destruction! Vive la mortl") he recorded...
Fool's Mate. Kennan's book begins by evoking the grimness of the Russian scene seen at its capital, Petrograd, where at every hand "one feels the proximity of the great wilderness of the Russian north-silent, somber, infinitely patient." Lenin and Trotsky were emerging as the main...