Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he came to power in 1954, Prime Minister Strijdom of the Union of South Africa has pushed the Nationalist Party's policy of "apartheid" (segregation) into every corner of South African life. In the name of preserving the purity of Western civilization from the "mongrelizing influence" of the blacks, Strijdom has spared no effort in keeping the non-Europeans in his country separate and backward. The Prime Minister now seeks to segregate the two remaining "open" universities in South Africa, thereby completing the process of "separate development" in education...
...college grow to such an extent that the California legislature has just okayed a $14 million expansion program. At Beirut (2,040 students at university level) he will face even bigger problems. The A.U.B. (which has produced such statesmen as Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, and former Prime Ministers Mohammed Fadil al-Jamali of Iraq, Faris al-Khouri of Syria and Sayed Ismail el-Azhari of Sudan) now runs at an annual deficit of more than $400,000, has the increasingly difficult task of attracting Arab students away from their own growing state-supported universities...
...bustling onetime (1937-40) British Secretary of State for War, who instituted a sweeping democratization of the army (e.g., more chance for promotion from the ranks, better uniforms, restaurants open to Tommies as well as officers, equal allotments for mistresses and wives), got himself sacked for his brashness by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, fell into political decline; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was delivering a speech on Franco-British unity; in Reims, France. Hore-Belisha did much to prod his nation into preparedness, probably will be recalled by most Britons for his term (1934-37) as Minister...
...established himself as a young-man-about-letters by concocting a French comedy (Les Pariahs) at 21, getting it produced successfully in Paris; as head of the British Foreign Office, attacked Naziism, got kicked upstairs (to the sinecure of chief diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Secretary) by appeasement-minded Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Vansittart admitted he was anti-German ("Germans have killed, tortured, starved, plundered and burned too much in this sad world of ours for any sane man to be anything else"), wrote Black Record, Bones of Contention to document his dislike, after World War II thundered just...
Collier's verbal monkeyshines are so adroit as to make the reader forget the paradox that while man may be like a monkey, a monkey is not like a man. It is all prime fun among the primates, and calls to mind the verse of a British poet in which an ape reflects on the Darwinian version of the Fall...