Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Down with the Yankee Octupus." "Death Before Living as Slaves!" read the banners carried by students in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), capital of mineral-rich, dirt-poor, coup-prone Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000). The angry crowd was demonstrating against an article in magamogul Henry Luce's Time (circ. 2,300,000), quoting an unidentified American embassy official as having said that the only solution to Bolivia's problems was to "abolish Bolivia and let its neighbors divide the country and its problems among themselves...
...average student in the course could read a French newspaper by the end of the year, the course would be a success," Madame Duhamel insisted. She plans to use French periodicals and recent literature next year and to lecture on contemporary France. "I think students are interested in learning about French daily life, economy, and geography; and lectures in French on these subjects would add to their knowledge of both the language and the country," she claimed...
Left to hold the battered fort, Mother worries--worries that her husband will be gypped in the big city, that daughter Durga is stealing necklaces from the neighbors, that son Apu is getting neither enough to eat nor enough to read. Rounding out the family is Old Auntie, who must be at least an octogenarian...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book that renews all who read it and condemns those who banned...
...chief editor of the sensational Sunday Express (circ. 3.426,753), noticed that Graham Greene had listed Lolita, then published by Olympia Press of Paris, as one of the best books of 1955. Gordon sent to Paris for a copy, pronounced it "about the filthiest book I've ever read...