Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nationalist uprisings last March in Nyasaland, the African territory run by London's Colonial Office. The report flatly called Nyasaland a "police state," and its findings may jeopardize the merger of black Nyasaland with the black and white Rhodesias into a Central African Federation, which is plumping for self-government in 1960. The findings were one more direct slap at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's harried Colonial Office...
After three months of seclusion in India's hill resort of Mussoorie, Tibet's self-exiled Dalai Lama, 24, broke his routine to witness a spectacle that strongly reminded him of his own people's bondage under the Red Chinese invaders. The attraction: The Ten Commandments, one of the late Cecil B. DeMille's last epics, his twice-filmed tale of Moses' struggle against Egyptian terror and tyranny. The movie won a rave notice from the God-King: "I liked it very much. I was greatly moved...
...epitome of a certain breed of winning football coach, a giant tending to paunch since his playing days, a man with a muscular glad-hand and sharp tongue, a celebrity of sorts who had had so much acclaim that he floated on an air of supreme self-confidence, certain that things would be fine-so long as he won. Once, when the student paper at his alma mater, North Carolina, took him to task for "playing to win and win alone," Big Jim Tatum replied: "Winning isn't the most important thing-it's the only thing...
...unlike other modern Hasidic sects-which are devoted to a kind of cheerful mysticism and have no objections to Israel-Teitelbaum's followers are fanatically opposed to most aspects of modern life, including military service, voting, movies and TV, mixed gatherings of men and women. They live in self-imposed ghettos, speak only Yiddish since they consider Hebrew sacred and reserved for prayers. Their opposition to Israel rests on two beliefs: 1) only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state, and any human attempt is sacrilegious: 2) the Israeli government is offensive to God for such practices as putting...
...Strawberries" runs through elderly Professor Isak Borg's one-day motor trip to receive an honorary degree at a Swedish university, and through old age's dreams of youth and death. Between self-revealing dream sequences, Borg is busy talking to his bitterly perceptive daughter-in-law (Ingrid Thulin), arguing and making-up with his stout-hearted housekeeper (Julan Kindahl), and experiencing three impossibly youthful hitch-hikers and an actress-and-husband couple whom he has picked up on the road to the university...