Word: jewel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jawaharlal Nehru stood upright in his open black Cadillac as it rolled beneath triumphal arches through the villages and towns of southeast India. "WELCOME, JEWEL OF ASIA," the customary placards proclaimed as he journeyed, garlanded, along paths strewn with palm leaves. Yet despite the familiar scenes of adulation, he seemed distant, tired, and ineffectual. Speaking from a platform 15 feet above the crowds of illiterate peasants, he projected his own confusion. He is against "the Communists," but not against "Communism." He does not approve of Communist "methods," but as for Communist objectives, "I like them." "Does Nehru Sahib wish...
...Netherlands' worldwide investments helped expand its gold and dollar holdings to $1.2 billion, more than France's. Twice within 1954, Dutch wage rates have been increased, by 5% and 6%. Little Netherlands has achieved its prosperity despite losing Indonesia, the crown jewel of its empire...
...steps of St. Peter's, the canons of the cathedral received the Salus Populi and placed the image on a dais in Michael-angelo's basilica. There, this week, in the presence of some 40 cardinals, more than 200 bishops, Pope Pius XII would fix jewel-studded crowns to the painting, first above the Infant's head, then above the Virgin's, to symbolize the fact that the Roman Catholic Church regards the Virgin as the reigning "Queen of Heaven [and] of all creation...
Ugetsu (Daiei). Five Japanese films have won grand prizes at International Film Festivals in Cannes and Venice since the war: Rashomon was the first to be shown in this country; Ugetsu is the second, and in many ways it is a jewel of intenser ray than Rashomon. Rashomon was orgiastic, almost Western in its rage for the things of the world. Ugetsu is contemplative in the midst of violence, wholly Oriental in its lidded introspection. As a result, its beauty and its meaning are more remote from Western audiences, but not too remote...
...Federation," which is already organized among the Thais who live inside South China. This grouping is designed to embrace 1,100,000 Laotians and 3,700,000 Cambodians (many of Thai stock), in addition to the 19 million Thais of Thailand. As such, it would make a handsome Red jewel to set beside a Viet Nam run by Ho Chi Minh...