Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists started off by goose-stepping Red infantrymen before India's man of peace; then they made sure that Nehru met the Dalai Lama of Tibet, whose barren land Red China conquered in 1950 over Nehru's public protest. They took Nehru round to a National Minority Institute where the Communists produced students from "40 border regions." The Communists explained that the students underwent training in "political ideology," then returned to South Asia's neutral frontiers as "teachers and leaders." Commented Jawaharlal Nehru, who had come hoping for a pledge of non-interference in other nations: "Very...
...that marks his characters and situations. Money and sex, religion and childhood are the problems with which he confronts his people. And they either solve them or they do not, depending on their personality which has been presented more or less explicitly. For example, in a story called Masculine Protest, a boy runs away from home after a quarrel with his mother and returns the next day. Yet he has solved one of the main problems of childhood by the fact of running away: "Dad too had once run away from home, and for some reason--perhaps because the bank...
House of Representatives, and perhaps of the Senate. Explained a Washington pundit last week: "Lots of voters still like Ike but feel quite free to vote Democratic-out of vague protest against something-or-other...
...frustrating hours, Grower ordered a stake driven near the wall of Eller's house that put the old farmer's kitchen and two bedrooms in his native Italy, consigned the remaining six rooms plus the chicken house and stock barns to Yugoslavia. Farmer Eller started to protest but was hushed by the police. An Italian neighbor shook his head in dismay. "This is worse than Groizia," he mourned. "All they did there was separate the town from the cemetery...
...Trial occupied Levine all last winter. In the process it developed from a sharply specific protest picture into an anxious generalization. He started with the notion of "painting a Negro being tried by a bunch of whites. Later," he explains, "the Negro dropped out of it, leaving just the judge, lofty and bespectacled, a record, a dignified bunch of lawyers and some unimportant guy in the box." With these few dim figures, around a judge's bench, Levine brilliantly evokes an air of weirness and worry, weighted with wiles and latent threat...