Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The moment of truth for the Geneva conference came in a "secret session" held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko...
For Prime Minister Macmillan there was nothing to do but fire off a cable to Lloyd assuring him of full support and confidence, and in Parliament to remark carefully in passing that "the Foreign Secretary and I hope to carry on our work together for a long time."
In spite of the fact that the CRIMSON poll or any other informal survey would indicate that Cambridge's undergraduates consider themselves a fairly pious lot, the nature of that piety raises serious questions as to whether any previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit...
Perhaps the most appalling fact revealed by the poll--as well as one of its least dubious findings--is the overwhelming preference among the Harvard-Radcliffe young intellectuals for war rather than surrender "if the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed...
They have betrayed a disturbing moral insularity and lack of social imagination in identifying the survival of a North American state with the good of higher culture every-where and for all time--a provincialism that should be unthinkable to anyone who has passed no more than his required General...