Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Someone ought to do for Gaylord [Babbitt] what Proust did for Madame Verdurin.* It would be a public service to publish a catalogue of the dreary cliches of so-called avant-gardism, and to point out that old George, with his uncomplicated enthusiasm for baseball and civil philanthropy, was no more hostile to genuine intellectual independence than Junior, with his exhibitionistic juggling of the phrases of psychoanalysis and wine tasting...
...stand had brought them much encouragement, but later U.S. defeats brought doubt and fear again. Andre Laguerre, head of TIME'S Paris bureau, arrived in Saigon last fortnight, as Indo-China was caught in the grip of the wet monsoon, which had temporarily limited the scale of the civil war. Last week Laguerre cabled...
...Canada's history that young Willie King decided that night to switch to government service. Before he had been on the job many months, his skill as an executive and organizer caught the eye of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Within nine years he moved out of the Civil Service and into Laurier's cabinet as Minister of Labor. When Laurier died in 1919, King took over as head of the Liberal Party...
...Fell nine short of the 64 votes needed to impose cloture on FEPC, the only way to shut off a filibuster if the bill were brought up. Voting for cloture: 22 Democrats and 33 Republicans; against, 27 Democrats and 6 Republicans. Civil rights legislation was dead in the 81st Congress...
...Utes were not the only Indian tribe that was getting some back pay, long overdue. The Indian Claims Commission ruled last week that the Government owes the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians $3,489,843.58 for Oklahoma lands taken by treaty at the end of the Civil War. The Navajos hired an archaeologist to help document their claim of approximately $10 million for 20,000 square miles in the Southwest...