Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stressed is the necessity, and desirability, of moral judgements in history, or the fact that criticism of a work of art is itself a moral action. The whole academic world is involved with morality, but the distinction between "objective" investigation and "subjective" judgment can at times serve as a pretext to ignore this involvement. If moral philosophy cannot be taught, it can at least be discussed as if it were an important topic in itself, rather than an impurity in the academic microscope to be discounted if it cannot be gotten...
...when the young non-Communists -a majority of the U.S. delegation-tried to win representation on the festival steering committee, they got a lesson in Communist procedural manipulation. On the transparent pretext that a number of registration cards had been stolen, Festival Chairman (and French Communist) Jean Garcias flatly refused to recognize the majority's officers...
Switching the scene to the Asian continent, Lokman Musa, Malayan Minister of Education, discussed his country's fight against the Communists, whose forces have now been pushed back to the jungles and to rural communities. Their pretext of opposing colonialism, while the country has achieved independence, and their rejection of amnesty offers have shown the people the obvious failure of the Party, he said...
...Clouds Lift. With the forged letters as a pretext, Red China embarked on one of the most massive man hunts ever. Detachments of the estimated 300,000 Red troops in Tibet began to drive painfully into the rugged land south of the great Tsangpo River, which still remained in the hands of the Khamba guerrillas. Supply planes roared over Lhasa; other planes dropped paratroopers to seal off the passes north of the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, which the Dalai Lama might conceivably be heading for. To stifle all word of what was going on, the Chinese surrounded the Indian consulate...
...living up to Antigone's advance billing as the girl who would "Rise up alone against Creon, her uncle, the King." Tragic inevitability is embodied in Antigone, "the pride of Oedipus"; "Death was her purpose," and the matter of the burial of her rebel brother's body only a pretext. Miss Allen does a competent job, quite effective in quiet moments, but she is not heroic...