Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's Nehru, who has as much reason to care as anyone, has displayed a great deal of feeling for the Dalai Lama, whom he hopes will continue to be safe. But he does not seem to know how he should feel towards the Tibetans themselves. He praised India's consul general in Tibet for refusing to accompany Tibetan women in a protest march, and declared, "We have no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of China, with whom we have friendly relations." It's not, Nehru feels, lack of concern but "noninterference...
...other hand, while it is always fun to dream, goals such as "influence within the body politic" seem extravagant for a college group. It might be better to present more information about the body politic...
...Actually, the Western peoples seem to have two dominant attitudes. First of all, they wish the Communists would roll up and disappear. Then they hope their allies would also roll up and disappear." Western people regard their relationships with other peoples as a "dismal duty," not a "startling opportunity." This negative attitude is "the projection on a national scale of what we think for ourselves," a desire to be left alone, a belief we can do best by ourselves. "It dates from the nursery. But it doesn't work on the human level, and it won't work...
Full Picasso or weak Picasso, is the question; but ingenuous and necessary the sculpture is without doubt. In another ten years The Bathers may turn out to be a landmark and it may seem a colossal bore. It may represent an extreme and very vital distillation of an exhaustable energy, or it may turn out to be an oversimplification attempted during an era of desperate searchings and inadequate solutions. In any case, our eyes will have to become acclimated before the dictums have a place. That, as the history of Picasso proves, is the most auspicious beginning...
...Administration should make every effort to find a qualified replacement. Geography is a valuable study; the factors of terrain are key determinants in social and political development of the world's peoples. A study of the appropriate geography would seem to be a necessity in the Regional Studies Program; suitable courses would also grace undergraduate programs. Whether flat, spheroid, or pear-shaped, the world could be studied with profit at Harvard...