Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record jacket for 3 Folk Sing states that "folk songs should be sung for the same reason they've always been sung, because they're fun." This philosophy comes across well in the concert. It shows originality, ingenuity, spontaneity...
Mosque & State. One reason for the current bitterness of Turkish politics is that Republicans fear that Menderes, to stay in power, is undoing the separation of mosque and state decreed by the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. To win favor in the devoutly Moslem countryside, Menderes has provided government funds for a vast mosque-building program, reintroduced religious instruction in the nation's primary schools, and encouraged the reading of the Koran over the state radio. To emancipated Turks, religious rule recalls the stifling, narrow days of the old Ottoman caliphate...
...Washington, asking the Justice Department to investigate the pact, the National Labor Relations Board to determine whether steel firms could act together on a shutout, since they do not bargain as a unit (U.S. Steel acts as the front man for the industry). But legal experts saw no clear reason why the steel industry could not legally act together on a shutout to protect itself, and the NLRB turned down the union's request because it had made no formal charges...
...Closing Gap. But the big reason for the gold outflow is that Europe's economy has recovered to the point where European countries have enough dollars to convert some of them into gold for their reserves. They are able to do this largely because of their high sales to the U.S. In March, U.S. imports reached an alltime high of $1,300,900,000, or 21% above a year earlier. Exports of $1,441,000 were 6% below last year at the same time. The once huge gap between exports and imports has narrowed so fast that...
There is no good reason to slip on down to the Brattle this week; any book would be easier going. The Red and the Black deals exam period diversion a death blow. Claude Autant-Lara has allowed himself to be carried away with the pathetic figure of a poor downtrodden peasant of the French Empire. He fails to recall that Stendahl saw Julien Sorel's answer to constricting French society as understandable, but not laudable. Sorel is no hero of the poor, he is simply the unfortunate...