Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Vacuum. The main obstacle for MIDEC is a longstanding Arab suspicion of Western domination, which has wrecked most other Western attempts at private enterprise. Propagandists rail so effectively against U.S. aid that it is becoming almost a sin to accept it. U.S. Government economic-aid programs are frequently considered politically ineffective, and private Western capital is steadily leaving the Middle East, except for oil companies, whose returns are great enough to justify putting up with the problems. Even Middle Easterners with money to invest generally salt it away abroad, or put it in quick-profit, nonproductive ventures. Only...
FROM the sandy wastes of North Africa to the lush rain forests of Southeast Asia, the winds of anti-colonialism blow with gale force, and wherever they blow, there is resentment and suspicion of the U.S. "The U.S.," says an Indonesian, "sides with the Western colonial powers and has not done enough in liberating Afro-Asian countries." Among Tunisians a once unalloyed admiration for the U.S. is giving way to the impatience voiced by President Habib Bourguiba: "Without U.S. financial aid, France could not continue her war of repression in Algeria. In our eyes this makes you an accomplice...
Seeing The Brothers Karamazov [Feb. 24] strengthens my long-held suspicion that TIME'S motion picture critic should be banished to some desert island reserved for misguided sophisticates...
...virtues is the seldom-heard Civil War music it saves from obscurity, e.g., Abraham Lincoln's Funeral March, a moving piece by an otherwise unknown composer, William Wolsieffer. The score is dedicated to Composer Bales's grandfather, a Union captain, but at least at one point the suspicion is aroused that Virginia-born Richard Bales has fired one last shot for the Grey: to record the boom of a cannon, Columbia sound engineers had a twelve-pounder touched off at Manassas, the site of two of the North's worst defeats...
...picture is all these things too-and more, and less. Like the book, it profits from Greene's instinct for weaving the fictional web, for making life look marvelously complex and always come out even. But life is sometimes very odd indeed, and the story sometimes invites a suspicion that Greene has rigged his game -a suspicion certified by the ease with which the Englishman wins it, and by the oafishness with which the American loses. It is a cheap debating trick, and it cheapens the picture as it did the book. But the picture, in the last reel...