Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost in the strident Afrikaans outburst was the calmer voice of former Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, who pleaded: "Let this monument of our genesis be ... a symbol not only of the past but of our reconciliation . . ." Judge Newton Thompson bluntly spoke for South Africans of British descent: "If you want our country to flourish and be happy, then you must take us with you, not as your subordinates . . . but as your equals at your side...
...President Perón has been steadily tightening the screw on such opposition as still exists in Argentina. Oppressive new laws have been ground out by a congress systematically weakened by the liquidation of opposition deputies. Over 20 anti-Perón periodicals have been closed up in the past five weeks; charges of libel and account-juggling have been brought against the leading independent dailies La Nación and La Prensa (TIME...
...past is thrilling. Except for coeds who knit in class, nothing irritates him more than people who refuse to look back. "Anyone who thinks that the world began in 1921," he snaps, "has missed the boat as a human being." Before each of Shakespeare's plays, he carefully lays the scene-the Denmark of Hamlet, the England of the Henrys, a physical description of Cleopatra ("I fumble around with this damn business to make the past seem eloquent"). Then he launches into the plays themselves, acting out each part. "Students must experience Shakespeare," he says, "not just read...
...past, doctors have disagreed as to how long vision is impaired by the sun's glare. Dr. Peckham found from his studies with lifeguards that much of the effect wears off overnight, but in most people some effect persists for two or three days, and in some cases it continues for more than a week...
...leaders, he said, are doing more damage "to the free-enterprise system than all the crackpots have ever done." To get an explanation, O'Mahoney asked Ben Fairless to appear before a congressional committee right after New Year's. Fairless, who in the past has often had as little to say as Garbo, promptly said that he would "welcome the opportunity" to explain the rise in steel prices...