Word: resting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious error to assume that departure from the Stalinist model means movement toward the democratic constitutional model," they say. For the West, they suggest: "We had better turn our face elsewhere, rest our hopes on other foundations than on the belief that the Soviet system will mellow and abandon its long-range goals of world domination...
...theological split has long kept Shiite Iraq, Iran and Yemen apart from the rest of the Moslem world, which generally adheres to Sunnite doctrine. Last week Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's revered al-Azhar University (TIME, May 11), was dramatically pressing a drive to reconcile the two sects. Sheik Chaltout years ago began wooing ulamas (Koranic scholars) of both sides with learned societies and a liberal theological monthly that is still going strong. Striking now with Nasser's support at the very root of the schism-the university itself, which for centuries condemned...
...booms. "What I like is running newspapers and TV"). Son of a Toronto barber, Roy Thomson started collecting his fortune when he set up a bush-country radio station, soon took over a bush-country weekly in a fast deal: "One dollar down and chase me for the rest." Like Fleet Street's Lord Beaverbrook, he eventually outgrew Canada, six years ago bought Edinburgh's Scotsman, settled in Scotland, soon had a corner on Scottish commercial TV ("The most beautiful music to me is a spot commercial at ten bucks a whack") and an approved coat of arms...
Belle tells all-or. anyway, enough to leave the rest readily imagined-in this ribaldly readable autobiography of an uncommon bawd, which is at the same time a perceptive reminiscence of the gaslight culture in its last wild glare...
...violently admired by the plutocratic playboys of the Edwardian era that Kansas-born Belle Livingstone was celebrated in the continental press as "The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe." What is more, brags Belle, when her day as a gold digger was done, she did not dispiritedly rest on her shovel, but hurried home and dug herself a sizable niche in U.S. social history as one of the leading figures of the Prohibition era, the Texas Guinan of the champagne trade...