Word: unless
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...would be isolated from its U.S. ally; Nasser would remain triumphant, and the Arab world would rally to his leadership; the Russians would take over in the Middle East through infiltrations, thus splitting the Commonwealth geographically and politically. All this could and would happen in a matter of weeks unless the Tory Party pulled together. His speech brought "loud acclaim." and the meeting adjourned. But nothing was yet settled...
Molotov has also been made official arbiter of Soviet culture, and at a recent meeting of Soviet writers, artists and critics he reaffirmed the old Stalinist doctrine of "Socialist realism." No art is "good" or "worthwhile" unless it serves a positive ideological purpose, said he. In other words, Molotov was ordering an ideological re-audit, which the sorry Soviet system badly needs. But it is hard to see how playwrights, authors and critics can do much but keep quiet, or lapse into the dull old dogmatic ruts, until the Soviet leadership itself gathers its wits and decides where...
...regard to the parking problem itself, Charles W. Greenough, commissioner of the M.D.C., said that the commission could not make a detailed study unless it were asked to do so by the University. He remarked that the M.D.C. would be glad to discuss the question with the Administration if it were asked...
From there on the debate grew hotter and hotter. Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt wanted all Arab states to break off relations with Britain and France unless the invaders pulled out of Egypt at once. But Jordan and Iraq were not yet ready to break with Britain, source of much of their revenues, and Lebanon's Chamoun did not want to break with anybody. The Iraqis let neighboring Syria know that they were extremely unhappy at destruction of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline across Syria. By blowing up three desert pumping stations, the Syrian army...
...also the first composer to become a bourgeois hero and one of the first upon whom the stupefying epithet "great" was popularly bestowed, an event that forecast the beginning of the present sorry condition of concert music-during the last hundred years, no concert has been really classy unless it had some Beethoven or another "great" on the program. Toward the end of his career, Schnabel himself rarely played anything but Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and Brahms, but instead of calling them "great," he called them "still problematic," and treated them as fresh challenges...