Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...most disturbed by the remarks of one frustrated applicant whom you quoted as saying that Princeton is a "party school." Loyalty to Mother Princeton and a command of the facts compel me to set the record straight. I am a junior; I carry four courses each semester. Each requires about six hours of reading preparation each week. In addition, each upperclassman at Princeton is involved in independent work for his particular department. For this I read 22 books and numerous articles in periodicals. The paper I wrote was 15,000 words long, about average for my department...
Nedelin, 57, was virtually unknown in the West-except to other general staffs-until a month ago, when Khrushchev, in an offhand remark at the Czech embassy, revealed that the marshal had been given command of Russia's brand new rocket force. A member of a favored branch (Stalin once called artillery "the God of war"), Nedelin became adept in World War II at Stalin's vaunted "artillery offensives," massing 300 pieces or more for each kilometer of front. His rise to favor with Nikita apparently began when both men were serving in the Ukraine during...
...knew for certain where the capital would be, and controversy even raged over the new flag (yellow stars on a blue field). The man with the largest bloc of votes in the first Parliament, goateed Patrice Lumumba, 34, was a convicted embezzler; the only other leader who might command a following, chubby, erratic Joseph Kasavubu, 43, just three months ago was vowing to destroy the new nation by pulling his own Lower Congo region out and merging it with the French territory next door...
Once the blood lust had been aroused to this pitch, the oath taker was easily led to kill his own father or mother, wife, child or master at Mau Mau command. And any local Mau Mau leader devising a fouler ritual was under obligation to pass along his recipe immediately to his less inventive colleagues. Since there were seven basic oaths, which could be taken over and over again, Mau Mau ceremonies thus became perpetual orgies. The result was that, when a Mau Mau convert did repent and vomit out his story to authorities, he sometimes ended by humbly asking...
...Hayes himself; one represents Death, and the other, depicting an athlete who has fought his last battle and is dying, has the face of Hayes himself. The house has a figure 6-shaped swimming pool half inside the living room, lights that go on and off at the command of Hayes's voice, and such homey essentials as faucets that dispense Scotch, bourbon and champagne. There is also a bomb shelter stocked with a three-week supply of food, water and oxygen. For further protection, Hayes installed a heavy green living-room rug that climbs up a glass wall...