Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President should offer to disarm down to a mere police force if others would do the same, under proper regulations. He should offer to abolish all offensive weapons, including the atomic variety, or submit them to foolproof international control. He should propose a new world agreement which would guarantee the East against Western aggression and vice versa. He should reiterate the God-given right of the peoples of all countries, large and small, to governments of their own choosing, at genuinely free elections by secret ballot. He should invoke the lofty principles and the spirit of international decency and justice...
Western European NATO of seven nations, which would nestle within NATO proper like a kernel in a nut, would permit German rearmament and still be acceptable to France. It would have the backing of the French nationalists, said Mendès, because it imposed no restrictions on French sovereignty, of the Socialists because it would bring in Britain as a counterweight to Germany, of some of the "Good Europeans" because it retained at least a whiff of European Union...
Apparently such picture-stories filled the need of a century ago which "true-life" comics and pseudohistorical movies now supply with considerably more effort and expense. Seen in flickering candlelight and buttressed by proper rhetoric, they presented a lurid, larger-than-life view of the nation's early history...
...collarless informality is misleading; the Burmese are meticulous. It is considered improper for a Westerner to visit a Burmese in shorts or a tropical shirt; the Burmese, colonial subjects of Britain until 1948, are sensitive about Westerners who appear to take them for granted. Yet the proper Burmese are remarkably free with their language: Burmese women will astonish Westerners with vivid, physical references to males they do not like; Prime Minister U Nu, a Buddhist layman of unusual piety, will casually refer to Communists as "Kwe-Ma-Tha," meaning "dog-bitch-sons...
...birthling in its blue caul glides gleaming into the world, the mother licks off the membrane and swallows it to help start the flow of milk, the calf staggers up blindly to the food it trusts will be there. The camera watches it all with a grave directness proper to an acolyte at a mystery, and even the incessant commentator seems to realize that the situation does not require cute remarks. In fact, if the average Hollywood picture had an approach to sex and life as healthy and honest as Producer Disney shows here, no parent would need think twice...