Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realism." No art is "good" or "worthwhile" unless it serves a positive ideological purpose, said he. In other words, Molotov was ordering an ideological re-audit, which the sorry Soviet system badly needs. But it is hard to see how playwrights, authors and critics can do much but keep quiet, or lapse into the dull old dogmatic ruts, until the Soviet leadership itself gathers its wits and decides where it is going...
Close associates date Sir Anthony's physical decline from early October. Then, on his way out to the country for a quiet weekend at Chequers, Eden stopped at London's University College Hospital to see his wife Clarissa, who was suffering with a troublesome wisdom tooth. As he sat by the bedside, Eden suddenly began to shiver. His temperature soared to 105½°. Doctors put him to bed on the spot, just across the corridor from his wife, and announced he had suffered "a feverish chill." Three days later, Eden was back at his desk, but some...
...from Cairo early last week, Hammarskjold began to make it clear that, according to his lights, the prime U.N. objective in the Middle East was to restore the situation that existed before the fighting started in Egypt. Reporting to the U.N. Advisory Committee on his conversations with Nasser, the quiet Swede indicated that he had freely accepted two fundamental Egyptian positions: 1) UNEF must withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone as soon as British and French troops leave Egypt; 2) repairs to the canal must await the Anglo-French withdrawal...
...know the relief of knowing I don't have to do the show. They have me knocking myself out every day for half the salary I received for doing a 12½-minute newscast." Winchell says that he really longs for the peace and quiet of his newscasts, "where I can sit down and not have to remember any cues or lines-jiggle the wireless key and get all that money for just telling a few lies." Is he planning another TV show? "Yes, a one-hour spectacular. The stars will...
...astronomer who wants to catch radio waves from space demands a quiet place for his radio telescope. In most locations, "random noise" from all kinds of electrical appliances interferes with or drowns out the ghostly spatial chirpings. Last week, after a one-year search, the National Science Foundation announced happily that it had awarded a contract to Associated Universities, Inc. for the construction of the nation's largest radio telescope in what proves to be the quietest town in the eastern U.S.-little (pop. 100) Green Bank, W. Va., 50 miles northeast of White Sulphur Springs...