Word: opium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karl Marx has an earlier title. In his Introduction to a Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right, he wrote: "It [religion] is the opium of the people...
...peaceful" Victorian Age encompassed the Mexican War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, found Britain embroiled in the Crimean War, the Opium War with China, the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Wars and the beginning of the Boer...
Catherine, who survived her husband by two years, bore him eight children. In many ways he was a child to her too, and she was protective about him. One dinner guest who differed with William on the subject of opium felt a note smuggled into his hand: "Do not contradict the Prime Minister." But when "England's voice," speaking through Gladstone, went on too long and Catherine felt that the pumped-out moment had arrived, she could be firm about cutting him off. Once she hurled a phrase at him that is the measure of the woman: "Oh, William...
...Asia, not panoramic but miniaturist, with the focus on individual Asians. Unpretentious U.S. Journalist Christopher Rand, an old Asia hand, snaps some memorable candids of the famed and humble, ranging from Vinoba Bhave, India's post-Gandhi Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953), to Mr. Fu, a Hong Kong opium connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks say "snnnnnng KWAH"). And there is-in perhaps the most haunting portrait of all-modest, bewildered Tenzing Norkay...
...solved by establishing the Caddies' Revolving Incentive Fund. And the rapacious golf pro, who year after year keeps promising his customers that their game will improve, is in a sense the guardian of the American dream. At Happy Knoll, a bit of snobbism is not only the opium of the Mrs. but the Miltown of both sexes ("How many Cadillacs are there at Hard Hollow? Two. How many at Happy Knoll? Eight on a summer's weekday and often twenty of a Saturday...