Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weightier commentators see the status war as containing grave national dangers. Fortnight ago London's Economist pleaded with upper-crust Tories to stop grumbling that workers "are getting above their station." Instead, "the modern Conservative should be one who looks up at the television aerials sprouting above the working-class homes of England, who looks down on the housewives' tight slacks on the back of motorcycles . . . and who sees great poetry in them. For this is what the deproletarianisation of British society means...
...Tall, handsome Leopold III, 57, was a hard-luck monarch. His queen, Astrid of Sweden, died in 1935 when a car driven by Leopold crashed into a tree. In 1940 Leopold refused the urgent pleas of his ministers to escape to London and set up a government in exile. Instead he surrendered to the Nazis and, while his nation was still occupied by Germans, married pretty Liliane Baels, the commoner daughter of a Belgian politician. At war's end Leopold moved on from Germany to Switzerland while liberated Belgium held a plebiscite to determine whether or not he should...
...Royal Theater and Opera House in Northampton, England. When Reeve descended on Brownwood, he was appalled to find that Shakespeare had not been presented there professionally for 40 years and not even by amateurs for 20 years. He promptly put the Bard and his students in the same corral. Instead of "a wood near Athens," Reeve's Dream is set on a Texas ranch in the 1880s, and the guitar-twanging players appear in Stetsons, bandannas and bustles (Hippolyta is an Indian princess in white buckskin). The dialogue is unchanged except by Texas tongues: "O naht! alack, alack, alack...
...cargo never comes. Then, instead of abandoning the cult, they tend to form splinter groups, organized around a "purer" faith. As long as the islanders' social situation remains unchanged, says Worsley. the cargo cults persist, but with the development of modern political forms, they begin to wither away. "In Melanesia, ordinary political bodies, trade unions, and native councils are becoming the normal media through which the islanders express their aspirations ... It now seems unlikely that any major movement along cargo-cult lines will recur...
...judge by the contraptions on view and the high-flown talk of motivation, it might have been a meeting of circus showmen or of sociologists. Instead, it was the annual meeting of the Super Market Institute, gathered in Atlantic City last week to demonstrate that today's supermarket operators must be both showmen and sociologists to sell their goods. As choosy as shopping housewives, and twice as voluble, the 13,000 delegates wended their way through aisles crowded with 530 displays, talked about changes in the U.S. supermarket...