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Wringing Hand. Two patterns are clear in Asia today, he said. One is "a revulsion against . . . misery and poverty as the normal condition of life"; the other is "the revulsion against foreign domination." Then he rolled with ball-bearing ease into his own theory of China's complex postwar struggles. It included the familiar State Department apologia for its own miserable failure in China: nothing the U.S. could have done, he said once more, could have changed things one iota. "What has happened in my judgment is that the almost inexhaustible patience of the Chinese people in their misery...
Performance. Said Sean O'Faolain: "The influence of the United States on Europe is the influence of a grandchild on his grandfather. This possibly will, if all goes well, be known in time as the Aeneas-Anchises complex, in grateful commemoration of the bravery, or obstinacy, of Aeneas in carrying his purblind sire out of the crumbling city of Troy...
What practical jobs can a calculator do? Merely describing its complex problems would require difficult mathematics, but there are some simple examples...
...complaint. Why, then, do so many workers turn against management and rush to join unions which often make punitive demands on management? Using the Freudian "psychodynamic" approach, Dr. McMurry holds that today's adult "is not nearly so far removed from childhood as people think ... In an increasingly complex socio-economy, we are dealing with selfish, dependent, hedonistic, wishful-thinking, amoral and quite immature individuals, emotionally like a child of four...
...three months in Washington, British, Canadian and U.S. oil experts have been conferring on a broad and complex question: How can Britain cut down on its greatest dollar drain, the $625 million a year it spends to buy and produce oil? ECA had tried to help: it had allocated $30 million for the construction of oil refineries in Britain...