Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years, under a succession of able ambassadors−Ed Stanton, William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and the late Jack Peurifoy−the U.S. embassy at Bangkok had had perhaps the ablest U.S. staff in Southeast Asia. The embassy is still staffed by men who believe that with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...
...certain amount of propaganda) but education for "defensible partiality." And what sort of society is Brameld himself partial to? Nothing less than a sort of global collectivism in which the workers of the world will unite as world citizens against all exploiting minorities. If only they are given the proper education, says Brameld, the People will find that that is exactly the sort of world they want...
...Brattle Theater put on artistically successful shows, but never managed to make money. It did create the proper atmosphere and enthusiasm for the Festival, however, which, hopefully will become a yearly event to give the atrical talent--especially American--an opportunity to direct or appear in plays which would not normally be presented in the commercial theater. The interest of the producers and of the University is focused on the possibilities of making the Festival a really important event, with internationally know theatrical figures coming to Cambridge and not only participating in the productions, but also taking an active part...
...fact that the polemic on the cult of personality no longer makes sense." Why? Because it lacks "any historical reconstruction of the moment in which all power was transferred to Stalin." In Nenni's eyes, K is obviously a crude apparatchick incapable of making a proper "Marxist analysis." Asking how and why Stalin grabbed his despotic power, Nenni dismisses Khrushchev's explanation that Khrushchev and his gang "saw these problems in a different way at different times." Says Nenni: "This answer may be valid in a strictly personal sense. It is not valid for the Central Committee...
...carry away the crown of Miss Universe at Long Beach, Calif., are a hardy lot. A group of 15 Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct of a proper Islamic beauty contest. Only a panel of female judges would see each contestant in a bathing suit; the girls could appear before male judges only when properly clad in veil and head-to-toe burka. The beauty sponsors even promised that when Miss Pakistan reached California, she would...