Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Havana University was saturated then, even more than today, with politics. Among the students I met it seemed that their central concern at the University was politics; studies were only incidental. One of the sponsoring organizations of Operacion Amistad, the Federacion Estudiantil Universidad (F.E.U.) has always played a significant political role in Cuba. In fact the F.E.U. held the balance of power in some of the Provisional governments after the fall of hated dictator Gerardo Machado...
...what is no small problem on the modern American scene. But articulate observers have seldom been more than articulate, and idealists and social reformers meet complete indifference far more often than opposition. The janitor is no exception. His protests are voiced again and again to various passers-by, and met with a smile, a smirk, a subdued laugh...
...toward the current issue. There is no controversy as there was two years ago and, consequently no real action. That is to say that since we all individually believe in, and affirm the rightness of opposition to the loyalty oath, we feel that our personal moral responsibilities have been met. But does not a social life entail social responsibilities--even for Harvard students? That a majority (as measured by Congressional action) of the nation outside of Harvard is in solid support of the loyalty oath, certainly has something to do with us and is partially our responsibility--particularly...
Formal religion in Honduras, the priests admit frankly, is in deplorable disrepair. Priests said that some 85% of all Honduran children are born out of wedlock. Three illegitimate children per father is "the rule," but ten is "not unusual." Dismayed when one group of children met with blank faces his question, "How many Gods are there?", he was downright horrified when the local schoolteacher coached in a stage whisper: "Five...
...Francisco, Kremlin-approved Soviet Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov, 54, and Boston-disapproved U.S. Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell, 55, met for the first time since they were war correspondents in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Caldwell complained that he gets no royalties from his highly popular Russian editions. Sholokhov's rejoinder: he gets no money from the U.S. for his books either. Later, Author Sholokhov sounded off in Washington to some U.S. authors about Nobel Prize-declining Novelist Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak. "A hermit crab," sniffed Sholokhov. Pointing out that they had never met...