Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Annenberg admitted that he was something less than an expert in foreign affairs. Despite its size (circ. 505,000) and wealth, his Philadelphia Inquirer does not employ a single foreign correspondent. But he did offer at least to redecorate the embassy residence. Judging from his homes in suburban Philadelphia and Palm Springs, that alone should be worth the price of his admission to the post...
Hardly incidental to Newark's problems is the fact that the city is rapidly turning black. Negroes comprise 52% of the population, up from 34% in 1960 and 17% in 1950. So speedy is the flight of whites to the suburbs that they are expected to constitute less than one-quarter of the population by 1975. Middle-class Negroes are also joining the white exodus, settling in communities like East Orange. "It's like being caught in a scissors," moans Mayor Hugh Addonizio. "One blade is the financial crisis. The other is the racial crisis...
...fertile area. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, party cadres, middle-school graduates and intellectuals thought to be in need of "reeducation" have been sent to Sinkiang to work for the cause, and their efforts have had some results. But for the most part, Sinkiang remains a wasteland, even less developed than the Soviet lands to the north...
...blows only in the form of rocket salvos. There are no new curfew restrictions, no hoarding, no staggering price increases. Acts of terrorism, while still a threat, are well below last year's level, and the number of civilians made refugees in the current offensive is 23,877, less than 5% of the total last year...
...Blind Beauty, a play, was published in an Italian magazine, Il Dramma,-the first of a series of three plays that Pasternak had intended as his "testament." Il Dramma Editor Giancarlo Vigorelli, in his introduction to the play, writes that he believes Pasternak's purpose was nothing less than "a religious, popular, social interpretation of the history of Russia, this 'Blind Beauty.'" Pasternak completed The Blind Beauty before his death nine years ago and left notes for the second play, but never got around to outlining the final drama, so far as is known. Blind Beauty itself...