Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divided Loyalties. The moral of the episode-that it is more honorable to betray one's party than one's fellow man-underlies The Fox and the Camellias, though Silone gives it a new twist. The setting is a Swiss farm near Brissago, where the novel's hero, Daniele, maintains a secret outpost for the Italian anti-Fascist underground, as Silone himself did in the '30s and early '40s. The farm is really Daniele's first loyalty, and his teen-aged daughter Silvia is his chief joy. Amid the cycle of the seasons, Silone...
Order & Self-Discipline. Whitby's inspiration, Maria Montessori, who died in 1952 at 81, was a mathematical prodigy and the first woman to get an M.D. at the University of Rome. Physician Montessori became an educator by salvaging feeble-minded children. By giving them things to touch and twist with their hands, she got their brains to function responsively. Soon the Dottoressa had supposedly moronic pupils outstripping normal children on public school examinations...
...conscience of America firmly believes it must be heard if the values responsible for our national greatness are not to be obscured. TIME has been fair in granting this conscience a voice from "time to time," and especially by making the necessary distinction between it and fanatical extremists who twist and distort what honest conservatism seeks to do for America. (THE REV.) PAUL J. PFADENHAUER Merrick...
...Senate battle over John Kennedy's minimum wage bill began, White House Aide Larry O'Brien sent a message to organized labor's lobbyists: "Leave the Democrats to us. You go after the Republicans." O'Brien figured he could twist Democratic arms by invoking patronage promises and the pressures of party loyalty; labor was delighted at the chance to prove to the Administration that it has the power to sway Republican votes. Last week the strategy worked perfectly...
More Like Metternich. From there the talk turned to nuclear tests and inspection and Lippmann caught an odd twist in the Red line: the U.S.S.R., Khrushchev insisted, has never conducted underground nuclear tests and never will. "We do not see any value in small, tactical atomic weapons. If it comes to war, we shall use only the biggest weapons." Khrushchev doubted-as he has doubted all along-that Russia can come to terms with the U.S. on nuclear inspection, citing, among other reasons, his objection to a "neutral" (i.e., nonCommunist) administrator I here are no neutral men," said Khrushchev...