Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your "Report from Munich" you quote U.S. Governor van Wagoner as having said: "Prison records aren't always bad politically," excusing thus his policy of giving office to convicted Nazis. The philosophy behind these words ... is the very essence of Naziism and-as many think-also of Communism. You cannot cure Germany if you bring to her democracy only as a political form without any ethical basis. Opportunism",, in whatever form it disguises itself, must in the end inevitably lead to nihilism and annihilation...
...Communist Party's hidden organ which controls the Ministry of Armed Forces. One trend was clear: all but one (Minister of Light Industry A. N. Kosygin) of the Politburo's 13 members have been relieved of routine administrative duties. Perhaps they needed to be free to think, and think hard, in view of crucial policy decisions ahead...
...Glittering Smile. Said one American, contemplating these subterranean revels: "You might almost think the Germans are going underground again, leaving the ruins above ground to mock their conquerors." But there are other types of underground Germans-the thousands of homeless in Düsseldorf and every Ruhr city, who live in herds in stifling air-raid bunkers. The fits to which these cave dwellers are frequently subject have been nicknamed Bunkerkholler (bunker frenzy...
...Moscow, Foo Ping-sheung, China's ambassador to Russia, pondered a telegram last week. It announced his appointment as Premier Ho Ying-chin's new foreign minister. Asked if he would accept, Foo said: "Wouldn't it be like jumping into the fire? ... I think people live longer in New Zealand...
...same way, but Rivera's wife, Surrealist Frida Kahlo, an accomplished painter in her own right, has pictured him as he seems to her. In a chapter written for a forthcoming book, Diego Rivera: 50 Years of His Work, she says: "Looking at Diego . . . you immediately think of a boy frog standing on his hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that of an aquatic animal. Only his hands and face are darker, the sun having burnt them. His baby shoulders, narrow and round, flow without angles into feminine arms and end in marvelous hands, small...