Word: opium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous communist slogan reads: "Religion is the opium of the people." Consequently the communists began with the negation of God. This was the fundamental point of their educational system--the negation of everything in disagreement with their philosophy, beginning with the ultimate. Faith in God was substituted with faith in the communist regime, particularly in the deified communist leaders. The goal of this "secular religion" manufactured in Moscow was to supersede the church and belief in God with a host of communist demigods, starting with Lenin and Stalin and ending with Rakosi for Hungarian consumption, Georghiu Dei for Rumanian, Boleslaw...
Knights with Armor. Pink-cheeked General Phao invested his top lieutenants as "knights." The knights and all their lesser cops survived charge after charge of corruption and opium smuggling, activities which got particularly careful coverage in Marshal Sarit's own personal chain of newspapers, while Marshal Sarit's commercial connections were discussed in the columns of General Phao's papers. The activities of both Phao and Sarit, in turn, were dutifully reported by Premier Pibul's string of newspapers, and with this delicate system of checks and balances, Thailand's government has survived an impressive...
...impractical preoccupation with poetry; civilization's missionaries depart, leaving behind two artificially inseminated ewes and predicting bigger and better herds, which the Falqani do not want. Throughout his country, Ghazan seems to see only a bizarre blend of ancient Eastern evils and too-hasty Westernization-hunger and corruption, opium smokers in grey flannel suits, profiteering officials who "displayed the refrigerator in their drawing room like a Chinese lacquer cabinet...
...Thai newspapers headlined the proposition, ideas poured in for everything from an opium den (rejected) to importing Linotypes (encouraged). Last week, when Graham reached India, where he offered to launch five more borrowers, the influential Times of India printed his picture on the front page. Scores of young businessmen who missed him in Calcutta pursued him to New Delhi, where his mailbox at the Imperial Hotel was jammed with 500 loan applications before he arrived, and the telephone never stopped ringing...
...film's strength is its refusal to melodramatize a situation whose inherent horror needs no melodrama. There is enough prosaic terror as Don, with slow, agonized self-abasement, reveals the nature of his sickness to his wife and father. A tour of an opium den could not carry the powerful conviction of this view into an ordinary living room...