Word: sway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This myth was no monopoly of the uneducated masses, or of those under the sway of Communist propaganda or commitment. The highest luminaries of arts and letters were responsible for some of the silliest absurdities. Jean-Paul Sartre's fabulously successful play about our South, The Respectful Prostitute, presents only more nakedly the whole creaky paraphernalia of America as seen and believed, in one degree or another, by the European intelligentsia from Kafka to Kingsley Martin...
...19th Congress of the Russian Communist Party to meet in Moscow Oct. 5. In the 13½ years since the last Congress and Stalin's prophetic remark, the Russian motherland has grown powerful beyond the wildest dreams of the Czars. East & west, 569 millions have passed under the sway of the Communists. Western Europe is tired and uncertain, the British Commonwealth exhausted. Only the U.S. has sufficient force to stand between Russia and the drive for World Communism...
...Egypt that the stirrings of emancipated women rocked Islam's elders most, for it took place in the very shadow of the mosques and chambers where the high priests of Islam hold their greatest sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...
...logical sequence of Creation, worldly pleasure and eternal punishment. Fränger disagrees. He believes that Bosch's naked figures represent not lust but "primal innocence." In his view, the artist was portraying an "Adamite family ... in which unbounded sensual delight and serene chastity hold equal sway...
...liter Ferrari (Model America) is essentially just as it came from the factory: $12,000 worth of Italian handiwork with an aluminum body and a triple-carburetor, twelve-cylinder engine (220 h.p.), capable of driving the car 140 m.p.h. Spear and Momo made only two alterations: an anti-sway bar was installed in front to improve the car's "cornering" qualities, i.e., its ability to hold the road at a high-speed turn, and the battery, for weight-distributive reasons, was put in the rear...