Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damning indictment of Communism by former party members and fellow travelers. Taken on a conducted tour by the Chinese Reds, he was somehow persuaded that formation of the communes was actually "spontaneous and unforeseen by the State Planning Commission." Yet even the establishment of the far milder cooperative farms met with considerable opposition among Red China's peasants. In Kwangtung province alone 118.000 peasants and their families deserted cooperative farms in 1956. Peking itself admits that the establishment of the communes has produced "vacillation" among the "upper-middle peasants." Stalin's forced collectivization of Russian agriculture...
Busy bracing themselves for another siege, the soldiers and civilians of Quemoy wasted little time speculating about the motives behind the seven-day cease-fire that Peking promised the island (TIME, Oct. 13). But others did, in chancelleries around the world. In Washington-which quickly met Peking's cease-fire terms by ordering the Seventh Fleet to stop escorting supply convoys to Quemoy-the prevailing opinion was that the U.S. firmness had paid off (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). By steadily increasing the quantity of supplies landed on Quemoy, so this reasoning went, the U.S. and Nationalist China had showed Peking...
...wing journalist, the Communists shortly clapped her into jail. His father, a social-climbing Frenchman who detested his wife's politics, had left for France before the war. But when the Loyalists lost, mother and son threw themselves on his untender mercies. When they arrived in France, he met them in a crowd of other refugees. Ignoring the boy, the father took one look at his wife and snapped, "You turn up with all this riffraff Hate the World. Still, Tanguy was happy in the little house outside Vichy where they settled, and for a while he felt...
...Question: Which side will win in the contest between Richard (Damn Yankees) Adler's tunes and Louisa May Alcott's sentimentalities, in this musical adaptation of the 1868 novel. The cast is not so much well-rounded as well-scattered: the Met's Rise Stevens as Marmee, toothy Comedienne Jeannie Carson as Jo, grown-up Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien as Beth (who will not die in this version...
...students we met often touched on "sore spots" in American political and social life. They asked us to explain the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, why our constitution permits the legislative and executive to be of different parties, what constitutional powers the states possess, whether our dependence upon machines was making us into unthinking robots, and what contributions America could make to the world besides financial...