Word: rau
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...adapters; its widespread profusion of scenes and its intricate undertones to a clash of cultures long eluded the stage. Last week in Oxford, the professional Oxford Playhouse proved that the job had at last been done, and successfully. The adapter, in her first try at drama: Santha Rama Rau, native of Madras, graduate of Massachusetts' Wellesley College, and a novelist herself. The play brought full organ tones from the London critics. Said the Express: "A great theatrical occasion...
Most of the OAS members were swayed not by treaty but by Trujillo's long and bloody record. "The Rio treaty is not a piece of paper at the service of dictators!" shouted Cuba's Minister of State Rauú Roa, and other delegates nodded their agreement. Cuba and Venezuela lined up enough countries to vote down the Dominicans. Ambassador Díaz Ordóñez scrambled to his feet and withdrew his motion just in time to avoid defeat...
...Rau, an Indian student leader who recently toured China, characterized the mainland Chinese as humans reduced to the level of "inmates in a zoo," with the exceptions that they were required to work harder and were ruled by an ever-present loudspeaker. He felt that the regimentation had resulted in an unhappy splitting of families in the massive commune program, but had successfully created a picture of "American imperialists" in Chinese eyes...
Reinforcing this propaganda bombardment are a plan of military training in even the communes, and an abrupt fusion of the traditional education program with the Marxist productive labor theories. Rau admitted that he was ready to be impressed, but had returned to India disillusioned by the impersonal impact of his hosts, the discovery that "modesty is not a Communist vice," and the uneasy feeling that he had been constantly watched...
...Rau argued that the Communists' censorship of all but approved foreign authors was a fair indication of their intellectual freedom, and the suppression of Tibet typified China's disregard for agreements and readiness to settle issues by force...