Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi there was real concern that India's neighbor Pakistan might have a revolution that would throw it into the arms of Nasser. "The time has come to re-evaluate and reassess our foreign policy," wrote Frank Moraes, biographer of Nehru and editor of the influential Indian Express newspaper chain. He referred to the danger to India from Communist China, which talks of "liberating Asia," and Communist influences on exuberant Arab nationalism. Enlarging on the dangers to India of Communist infiltration of "the huge Pan-Arab Islamic land mass," Moraes asked: "Is it in India's interest...
Among the many places Egypt's President Nasser keeps a roving eye on is his big (967,500 sq. mi.) southern neighbor of Sudan. The Sudan, ruled jointly for 56 years by Britain and Egypt, got its independence only 2½ years ago. But the Sudan's wily and forthright Moslem Premier Abdullah Khalil has shown himself surprisingly capable of keeping his young nation free. Eight months ago he smashed a threatened coup by arresting three officers and firing eight others, has since insisted on keeping his army free of Cairo-tainted men. Though pro-Nasserites shrilly...
Public or Private Values. Cohen defends both Catholicism and Orthodox Judaism against the secularist charges that they are incompatible with democracy; just because one's neighbor holds different religious opinions, says Cohen, is no reason to accuse him of being disloyal to a pluralist, democratic society. Clancy, on the other hand, attacks those Catholics who are trying to "impose on the public values that, in this time and place, have become private values," as is often the case in censorship fights. Such Catholics, says Clancy, "act as though the last few centuries had never happened." Both Clancy and Cohen...
...crime is not known (it was "political"). On his discharge papers the line that should explain the reason for his release is left blank. How common such cases are in Hungary is made clear by the taxi driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when his wife comes home from work and his son from school, there is a moving confrontation that shows how the faceless horror can beat upon yet not crush out the deepest feelings of its victims. Tibor Dery's Behind...
...bleak moorland house of Wuthering Heights, flashes back to when he was an orphan boy living on the mean bounty of the Earnshaw family. It sketches Heathcliff's growing love for Cathy Earnshaw, his flight when he learns she is to be married to Edgar, a neighbor; his return to marry Edgar's sister and seize Wuthering Heights from Cathy's debt-ridden brother. The drama closes with a reconciliation between Heathcliff and Cathy as she lies dying...