Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publications would care to face the difficulties that confront Inuktitut. While Eskimo syllabic writing is basically simple - twelve symbols, convertible to 48 by subtle compass shifts of position - in usage it can get incredibly complex. There is no Eskimo word for magazine ("writings" covers everything), or man (inuk, the word Eskimos use, means "hunter"), electricity, car, or wheel (many Eskimos have never seen a wheel, let alone...
From their Berlin vantage point, the Western powers confront the interior of the Communist world with a visible example of freedom in action. From Berlin, Western powers draw back their most accurate intelligence of what is going on in Eastern Europe. More important, Berlin constitutes the Soviet empire's greatest escape hatch. Through West Berlin every day there still pass some 250 East Germans-not just the aged and infirm, but the ablest and most vigorous citizens of an East German satellite crucial to Moscow's economic and political plans...
Bicycling to the Baribas. Most Zee scholars go even farther to confront life. Last summer one scholar wangled a mechanic's job on a U.S.-bound Danish steamer, thumbed his way to Illinois and wrote a thesis on French influences there. Architecture Student François Calsat pedaled a creaky bicycle all over the jungles of French West Africa, won a top prize for his study of architecture and folkways among the Dahomey tribes. Highlight of his report: an account of a month spent as guest of 80-year-old Tunko Cessi, bangana of the warlike Bariba tribe...
...Handlin said this week, "purely opportunistic... The worst part of his effect was that he kept confusing any kind of issue with which he dealt. People influenced by him never got to confront problems even as directly as in New York where, though you had Tammany, the leaders and more important politicians had some conception of the larger issues of politics...
...doctor, Paolo Venchierutti, has announced that the somewhat overweight Pontiff (205 Ibs.) "has a robust stamina unweakened by the years." He generally sleeps no more than six hours a night-retiring at 10 and rising at 4. But however strong his body and short his sleep, the problems that confront his reign are a formidable legacy...