Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...unspoken at official levels but widely discussed in editorials was a widespread feeling that in its declining days, the Eisenhower Administration had somehow lost its first confident touch or, at any rate, lost momentum. Even those who were confident that Kennedy would make few changes in Eisenhower's basic policies talked of "a new impetus...
...third possibility Miss Porritt stated is that of keeping the present library and in addition building one or two others near the Quad. These new libraries would be similar to those in the Harvard Houses, containing books for basic reference and for general reading...
...more profound understanding, they felt, would be a willingness to let South Americans solve problems in their own way--even though American-owned industries would have to be nationalized. There was general assent to a proposal by Jose Moraes of Brazil to nationalize (with compensation) public utilities and basic extractive industries, establish a free-trade area throughout South America, and institute agrarian reform...
...what Muriel Spark can accomplish when she forswears the stage properties of the semi-supernatural suspense story and moves her characters about with no strings attached, "he tells the life and death of Daphne du Toit, an enchanting and entirely credible South African girl whose betrayed dreams illuminate a basic Spark theme-the cruelty of reality and the greater cruelty of the illusions that falsify it. (British Author Spark herself spent 6½ years in Southern Rhodesia during World War II, working at "odd jobs, waiting to get home and trying to write...
LETTERS OF SIGMUND FREUD (470 pp.)- Selected and edited by Ernst L. Freud -Basic Books...