Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India, Pakistan and the United States seem to have mellowed on certain points of contention under the influence of the Tibetan situation. Nehru sounds more and more like a "Western" diplomat rather than a "neutralist," and American attitudes toward India warm as Indian outrage over Tibet grows. Last week The Times of India was filled with enough good feeling to advocate a summit meeting between Nehru and Mohammed Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan, praising the new Pakistani government as "the one with which we can do business. Its leaders have on more than one occasion made conciliatory references to India...
...Advocate's Spring Isue is distinguished by a slick and promising First Act of a play by Arthur Kopit. Five essays on theatrical matters--comprising the rest of the magazine--seem of little consequence...
...they say it, Mr. A. is a moral as well as an aesthetic coward. Dogmatically he extracts a sentence from an article--rather than troubling to restate the argument of the article in his own terms. Then he sneers. A few steps in the critical process seem to have been left out or aped...
Nkrumah, too, was obviously distressed by the turn events were taking in Guinea. Touré, though capable of cracking down on those in his entourage who seem to be getting too cozy with Eastern Europe, operates like a Marxist. The two leaders, conferring through interpreters (Nkrumah speaks English, Touré French, and they have no common African language), pledged themselves to find ways of "re-enforcing" their union. But actually they were far apart. While Ghana is so flush with its latest cocoa crop that it is embarking on a $930 million five-year development program, Guinea...
...more than 95% of all alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally admit to himself that he is really "drunk." It is hard to deny; he can no longer control his behavior, is beset by marriage, money and job crises. His main problem is accepting a doctor's diagnosis: alcoholism...