Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henri Takizala, President of the National Union of Students of the Congo, made a plea that the East and the West "temper their conflict and allow the Congolese themselves to come together and solve their problems." If this is not done, Takizala foresaw the possibility of the Congo's becoming "another Korea," a divided country with Western influence centered in Leopoldville and Soviet influence dominating stanleyville...
...society, however democratic, a "handful of men in secret" make the choices that "determine in the crudest sense whether we live or die." So argued English Novelist Sir Charles Percy Snow last week as he delivered Harvard University's prestigious Godkin Lectures on public affairs.* Snow's plea was for more scientists in government, thus minimizing the role of hunch and political intuition...
...Burmese plea to strengthen the U.N. by admitting Red China and a Cuban defense of the Castro revolution highlighted Saturday night's 20th Century Week Session at Sanders Theatre. A Lebanese citizen and a Negro South African in exile also participated in the panel discussion of U.S. foreign policy...
...Averell Harriman and Sir Andrew Cohen concluded Twentieth Century Week yesterday with a plea that America improve its image in the eyes of developing African countries by recognizing that these countries need not take sides in the cold...
Rage at existentialist sloth and his plea for a new vision to strive after place Snow near the camps of those calling for national purpose and those who are sad to se the end of ideology. His weak argument for more scientists in top government positions derives from something more serious and more important: a revulsion against the current western attitude of hopelessness about politics and all attempts to organize men in he service of a common ideal. To the extent that his mood is born of a sense of the emptiness of so much of the activity...