Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Picked primarily for a common interest in America, the participants at the Seminar included journalists, students, teachers, civil servants, and even businessmen...
While Burma's devout Premier Thakin Nu prayed for peace at a Buddhist altar, his government's drive to end civil strife had cut down and scattered the fierce Karen rebels (TIME, June 5). Recently, the government got word that insurgent Karen "Premier" Saw Ba U Gyi was hiding out near the Siam border...
...against illness in the Burma jungles. During the Japanese war, he organized a front-line medical service for U.S., British and Chinese troops, trekked out of Burma with U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, marched back again when the Japanese were driven out. During the country's fierce postwar civil strife, he continued to operate his hospital at Namkham. Last September rebel forces took Namkham. Government troops eventually drove them out. Thakin Nu's government said it suspected that the American doctor had helped some of the rebels to escape...
...wrote: "It seemed . . . that the rioters of Union Square had gone far beyond the rights granted them in the Constitution. They were giving aid and comfort to the enemy and they should have been thrown in jail and tried for treason. Don't give me that guff about civil liberties . . . The Daily Worker going on the boost for Russia in this war is just as mixed up with the enemy as Seoul City Sue who broadcasts to our troops in Korea . . . I'm sure that if most Americans should walk through the crowded wards [of wounded] they would...
Faulkner's instinctive sympathies are with the founders of the Sartoris clan, who tamed the country and fought in the Civil War. But he realizes that their way of life is dead forever, largely because they allowed it to be corrupted by slavery. Some of Faulkner's most viciously satirical passages are directed against the sickly remnants-the gentlemen who drink morning toddies while the floors beneath them are visibly rotting away. At the same time, he desperately hates the hard-souled, faceless Snopeses, whose only purpose in life is to accumulate money. In the present-day South...