Word: vastly
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...York City thus became the nation's Democratic stronghold, and (with a valuable assist from the Democratic-oriented Liberal Party) remains so today. Of the city's 8,000,000 total population, some 5,000,000 are members of minority groups-and the vast majority have kept faith with the Democratic Party. Drawing on that faith, Democratic candidates can frequently win pluralities of more than 600,000 votes in New York City (Averell Harriman carried the city by 698,000 for governor...
Missing from the flags and bunting that decorated Peking's vast, Red-built Magnanimity Hall were the customary huge portraits of the party leader. Only four Western newsmen were permitted to report on the proceedings, and they were briefed in a clubroom 2½-miles distant. Communist journals avoided lavish praise of Mao, emphasized instead his record as a "collective leader." No actual down grading of Mao was involved, however, nor did this represent any contraction of his real power. The Chinese leaders were merely deferring to the pattern suggested by their Soviet brethren, a pattern explained in person...
Your Sept. 10 footnote reference to my book on Professor Toynbee's A Study oj History makes it appear that I am angry with Toynbee because his ''vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as 'fossilized relics' fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival." This misrepresents me. I am angry with Toynbee because I believe (and think I have proved in my book) that his views on Judaism and the Jewish people are heavily tinctured with antiSemitism. His scholarship in the Jewish and some other fields does hot move...
...idea functions most impressively at Versailles. At dusk, some 2,000 to 6,000 visitors perch quietly on steel folding chairs on the vast graveled terrace, listening to the piquant yet noble strains of an orchestral prelude, the work of Jacques Ibert, distinguished French composer (Ports of Call) and former manager of the Paris Opéra. "Here intrigues are woven and romance prevails," proclaims a voice which seems to come from the heart of the chateau itself (it is the recorded voice of Charles Boyer, via 28 loudspeakers, speaking a text by André Maurois). "Here all France...
...growers cannot take advantage of their progress because cotton has been grown under an uneconomically high. Government-supported price system favoring the small marginal farmer. Cotton economists are convinced that the marginal farmer must get out of cotton to make way for the big mechanized producer, who can farm vast tracts of land on the Texas plains, California's well-irrigated valleys or Mississippi's rich delta lands -and do it at such a low cost that he can compete, without government subsidies, with both synthetic fibers and foreign cotton...