Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During a question period that followed, an unidentified Algerian student spoke out against the pro-French views of Hoffmann. This student broadened the issue by demanding that France get out of all her former colonies and "leave them alone...
Documentation of their charges suggests some clear-and clearly controversial-answers to a question put by Columbia Dean Jacques Barzun in the foreword: "Why has the American college and university so little connection with Intellect?" In language that is often witty and only occasionally typical of sociology's bread-pudding prose, Professors Caplow (University of Minnesota) and McGee (University of Texas) list academe's hurtful mores and petty machinations. Some of the worst...
...trying to set up an international stabilization plan for coffee to save the world market from the results of coffee-planting binges. Last week 15 Latin American countries signed an agreement restricting coffee exports, but, by failing to curb overproduction, their real problem, left open the question of how long the agreement would work. Now the U.S. is also taking the lead in setting up a study group to plan a stabilization board for the world's hard-pressed lead and zinc producers. It favors these plans in the hope that they may replace unpopular import quotas that have...
...author's notion that "the world is neither significant nor absurd. It is. That is the most remarkable thing about it." Proceeding from this Istentialist view, Author Robbe-Grillet, hero of Europe's avant-garde critics, has written a sort of whodunit in which the question of whodunit is never answered. To a French offshore island comes Mathias, a watch salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that of Lolita's Humbert Humbert, involves young girls. As his boat approaches...
...curbed his typographical pretzel bending-which can now be recognized for the attention-holding device it is. Fresh, singular, vivid and intense, Cummings' verses recall the aim he once set for himself as a poet: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child?-No, I'd hit her with a brick.'" Cummings is still hitting his readers with bricks-but also with the flowers and the fancies of a unique lyricism. crazy jay blue) demon laughshrieking...