Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current director--are frequently requested by journalists to comment upon Soviet events, they regard the Center's function not as communication with public or press, but as contribution to scholarly knowledge of Russian society, government, economy and history. Marshall D. Shulman, associate director of the Center, notes with justifiable pride that each volume in the Russian Research Center series published by the Harvard University Press represents a solid, thoughtful piece of scholarship...
Under Fainsod's leadership, the Center can be expected to continue has scarcely been covered. Large areas still remain untouched; in others, only scant research has been completed. Rather than pointing with pride at their considerable achievements, most people connected with the Center feel that the task of scholarship has just begun and that--with the greater opportunities for research provided by the "opening up"--the next few years will see a tremendous advance in the Russian field. Whatever the scope of the progress, the Russian Research Center, having established its international pre-eminence over the past decade, will...
Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen capped his two-year tour of duty in Manila by concluding a base agreement that satisfied both Filipino pride and U.S. security requirements...
...return, the U.S. will keep its four biggest Philippine naval and air bases-Subic Bay, Sangley Point Naval Air Station, Clark Field and Camp John Hay-as well as three lesser installations. Philippine President Carlos Garcia, who clearly intends to point with pride to the base agreement in the forthcoming Philippine off-year elections, was quick to praise Bohlen's statesmanship and to declare that "less capable hands" might have imperiled U.S.-Philippine friendship. But Garcia's warmth did not necessarily augur an easy time for Bohlen's prospective successor, John D. Hickerson, now U.S. Ambassador...
...have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal, as the Florentines say themselves, with a certain civic pride." With these strictures out of the way, there begins a portrait of former glories and calamities that combines a meticulous observation of the past and the art that has outlived it with some of the year's most readable prose...