Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that TIME has not seen fit to print any account of the recent race incidents in Chicago, in which some 30 persons were injured? If these had occurred in Mississippi, TIME would have given its usual lengthy, distorted account...
...final score on the Battle of the Budget was still beyond calculation. It remained to be seen, for example, how much or little of Congress' cuts would in fact have to be made up with deficiency appropriations. In 1960, say, after the last tremor of the 1957 budget battle has died away, a university professor may wangle a Ford Foundation grant to figure out the score. If, with the help of half a dozen accountants and an electronic brain, he comes up with a fair and accurate estimate, it will be a lot smaller than Harry Byrd...
...struggle for power still to come -for dictatorships have iron laws of their own, and committee rule is not one of them-the comrade who will always bear close watching is the glowering little man who even now can be seen edging away from the newsreel camera's center of focus. He has a record of survival...
...psychoses (again a low proportion compared to the West), with the paranoid form most common. Haiti's peasants rarely develop schizophrenia, but those who do, show in their delusions "a cultural African content with the gods and devils of the old black continent." The disease is most often seen among the economically and culturally unstable fringes of the middle class in the towns, and these people in their mental disturbances "evoke the Christian god, electricity, radio and other elements of Western civilization...
...first the book reads like a suspense tale of survival, told with a sort of totalitarian recall-minute details of rocks, water, limpets, seaweed are forced on the reader, until Lieut. Martin's every movement is seen as in a microscope of time. Swiftly, the novel makes clear that what matters is not Martin's survival but the kind of man who is or is not to survive. Also, Novelist Golding makes clear a subtle philosophical notion-that one can change the past by what one thinks about it. On civvy street Martin had been an actor (professionally...