Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civilized people are pleased to call primitive. The author, who knows Africa well and has written of it memorably in The Lost World of the Kalahari, argues in a passionate introduction that the nature of primitive Africa must somehow be recorded so it will "always be there to help thaw the frozen imagination of our civilized systems so that some sort of spring can come again to the minds...
...curious fact that baboons teach their young to count aloud to the number three (but not beyond, because to baboons all numbers higher than three are simply "a hell of a lot"). Van der Post is right: the reader finds with great pleasure that such knowledge does thaw the civilized imagination...
...added up to the beginnings of a thaw in relations between the two countries. Even if the thaw continues, both sides would have to concede a good deal more before diplomatic relations could be resumed. For openers, Nixon would most likely have to lift the U.S. ban on imports of Cuban sugar, and Castro would have to ease up on exporting subversion to other Latin American countries...
Krol's visit was more than an old-home week for a Polish-American cardinal. In 1966, when Poland celebrated its 1,000th anniversary, both Krol and Pope Paul VI were denied permission to visit the country. Krol's welcome now is just one sign of a thaw between Poland's government and the Roman Catholic Church. On two fronts, those relations seem to be getting better. Last summer the Vatican appointed six longtime Polish administrators as the regular bishops of dioceses in former German territories, thus recognizing the Oder-Neisse line that West Germany had acknowledged...
Until recent years, the inner workings of Soviet scientific institutions have been glimpsed by only a few privileged visitors from the West. Now as part of the partial thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations, several American science writers, including TIME'S Fred Golden, have been taken on a conducted tour of leading Soviet research centers, from Moscow to Leningrad to Novosibirsk in western Siberia, and allowed to speak with scores of top scientists. Golden's report...