Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt said that "Science is especialy sugar-coated." No one is forced to go into science, but scientists receive higher pay and more privileges. Soviet science has made such great progress, she said, "because only in science can a Russian think perfectly freely...
What is it, in this book, that Maria Dermoût knows? Born in Java on a sugar plantation, she lived for 27 years on many islands in what was then an opulent Dutch Indian Eden. Her children and grandchildren were born there. The look, sounds, smells of jungle and sea seem to have penetrated her consciousness. The deep differences between native and white, between servant and master, are effortlessly established as both subtle and decisive. And underneath the light garment of Christianity or Mohammedanism worn by the natives, there is the steadily discernible play of a fundamental superstition...
Florabelle bared her tooth and cackled up at him: "Lord, Sugar," she said, "it ain't none of that. It's that I'm one-tenth Negro...
...reply was a renewed pledge to boycott the elections-and renewed violence. They set bombs popping from Havana to Santiago, 500 miles away, fired buses, killed two policemen, sent mysterious light planes over cane fields, dropping thousands of incendiary tubes that burned upwards of 125 million Ibs. of sugar cane...
...killing the whole country with kindness. But before that can happen, the Englishman contrives, through the agency of some serviceable Communists, to kill the American. The book ended there, with the Englishman feeling very little pain. But the picture goes on, in a foolishly obvious attempt to sugar the pill so that U.S. moviegoers will swallow it, to take it all back about the American. It turns out he was not really responsible for the bomb that exploded in the crowd of shoppers-and so on. The Englishman, it seems, has simply been duped by the Communists. "I wish someone...