Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he is pleased to call the appearance of military dictatorships. It is enough to cite the example of Burma which was not receiving military aid to refute this. Nor is a change in the form of government peculiar to underdeveloped countries. Rather, it is in an oversimplification to think of the political situation in a country receiving aid in the terms which he has in mind. It is not difficult to see that a country which receives only economic aid is free to divert a large part of its own resources towards increasing the size and effectiveness...
...think I'm not old enough to drink bourbon," said Sebbie...
...handful of French and Arab troops is just what is needed to show him up all the way. The catalytic agent that calls his variety of weaknesses into play is an affair with Ramie, an adolescent Arab girl who becomes Auligny's obsession. Loving her, he begins to think that he loves the Arabs and wants to understand them. Yet all the time he really only uses Ramie to fill an emotional vacuum, just as she is simply using him to get money. Montherlant finished Desert Love (part of a longer novel) in 1932, made only minor additions...
...dialogue is many notches above most comedy material, and full of little declamations perhaps characteristic of a novelist on vacation. The crook Lorre says, "Time. Squandered by Italians. Disbelieved by the English. Dallied with by the French. Changed to dollars by Americans. I think Time is a crook...