Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen, however unsympathetic they might be toward Isacson's foreign policy views, were disturbed at this infringement of their right to go anywhere and investigate anything. If one Congressman could be forbidden a passport, so could others. Besides, if any citizen of the U.S. had freedom to speak his mind at home, why should he be denied the same freedom in Europe? Congressmen were not alone in thinking that the State Department, instead of using its passport power to curb its critics, would do well to label them properly and let them talk their heads...
...week at Lecce, when Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti denounced the Marshall Plan, he was booed into silence. In a sudden bullish mood, the Rome stockmarket rose higher than it had been in three months. At Gorizia, a crowd of 1,000 Italians broke up a Communist meeting, then stormed toward the nearby Yugoslav border shouting: "Long Live America, Death to Tito!" Frontier guards had to squash the impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator aboard a ship from Yugoslavia. On the same day, the sooth U.S. relief...
...There are differences between the Chinese and Western attitudes toward mountains. . . . Chinese poets are inspired by mountains to write poems. . . . Mountains in China also serve as inspiration for suggestive landscape paintings. The artist does not necessarily have to visit the mountain. He can lie on his back and dream. . . . Now we have Mr. Reynolds, holding an atomic pen in his hand. . . . He knows the value of using mountains to publicize his name and his pen, while the Chinese know only about burying themselves after death in mountains which are famous...
...essays Virginia Woolf approached writers of the past and present with the same questions in mind. She wrote about Jane Austen's conscience, Defoe's advanced attitude toward women and Sterne's troublesome ghost. She probed the minds of writers as different as Montaigne and Ring Lardner-and brought them all to quickened life; she made them seem contemporaries...
With this year's show, "Touch of the Times," moving toward completion, the organization is searching for a suitable vehicle of production next fall, and any Radcliffe or University student with a yen for seeing his work on cellulose may offer scenarios for competition...