Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the French Foreign Office and British sources in London said Moscow was merely repeating what had been said in the original note on Nov. 27 announcing the Soviet Union would junk the four-power occupation agreement on Berlin...
Higher learning in America has traditionally revolved around the prestige of the erudite scholar and his note-taking pedagogy. This academic ideal pictures a band of scholars in the libraries, doing research, composing reports on this research in the form of lectures, and mimeographing lists of books which relate to their investigation. On the receiving end of this verbal transaction should be an intellectual student, attentively copying the scholar's words into his notebook, and diligently tracing the outlines of his reading into a well-foonoted typescript or bluebook...
...reconciliation between France and Germany. Crusty, old (82) Konrad Adenauer, a fellow Roman Catholic who hits it off well with De Gaulle, beamed in delight at De Gaulle's assurances of French solidarity with West Germany in the Berlin crisis. But in London, the British government took nervous note of the politics, and the economics, of the meeting...
...sweetness and light changed abruptly to the hurtling of thunderbolts a month ago. The grounds: that Iran was negotiating a bilateral defense agreement with the U.S. Yet this agreement has been in the works for months. In Moscow, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko handed the Iranian ambassador a stiff note warning of the danger of Iran's being involved in the "military adventures" of foreign circles." Voroshilov's visit was abruptly canceled; Ambassador Pegov stopped flashing his gold-toothed smile and packed for the trip home. The Soviet radio, in Persian language broadcasts, cried that "American warmongers will...
Rivalry with God. Many a devout reader may find this note jarringly impious and pessimistic. Kazantzakis is neither. Like Zorba, Odysseus exults in life, and even during his lowest moments he is seldom without gusto. There are times when he thinks he is better than God, times when he thinks that man ought to help God rather than the other way around. He never accepts defeat...