Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to protest against your picture of the Burmese Prime Minister's backstage visit to Kismet [July 4]. Although it is quite obvious that U Nu knew what he was doing, a family newsmagazine is hardly the proper place for this bust-by-jowl juxtaposition of the traditionally quiet Eastern dress and the pseudo-Eastern undress...
Dark, dramatic, with deep-set eyes burning in a gaunt face, at 53 Malraux has the looks proper to a hero, the talk proper to a genius. His ideas gush out in a torrent that overwhelms friends. His talk ranges from obscure Japanese painters to customs of American Indians, from Swiss primitives to Buddhist philosophers. He has argued Communism with Trotsky Hinduism with Nehru. In his dazzling transitions and far-flung references, he is a conversational wonder of the world made the more difficult to follow by his nervous facial tics and a constant snuffling into his hand caused...
...Five Year Plan proper did not get going at all until last February, two years behind schedule. "This was because of ... our lack of experience in drawing up long-term plans and our very inadequate experience in construction work," explained Planner Li. With the "wholehearted, disinterested and fraternal assistance of the Soviet Union," the plan had been revised and brought "closer to reality." In practice, Li admitted, this meant a drastic reduction in many of the fanciful targets...
...archbishop, who feels that modern is as modern does, cautiously decided to let a year or two pass before final consecration. He wanted to see if the chapel in practice inspires the proper mood for prayer. As far as Le Corbusier and the proud village owners are concerned, Our Lady's new concrete chapel has already proved that it will...
...birthday celebration. Main item on the agenda: unveiling 150 masterpieces from the Samuel H. Kress collection. As an indication of the superb quality of the new Kress donations, the gallery this week made public the names of six (see color pages). Each was a masterpiece in the proper sense of the word: clear and present evidence of the artist's genius crossed with the spirit...