Word: currents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...know that nuclear technology is in its infancy and that its possibilities are almost endless this statement is incomprehensible. He further maintains that nothing must "inhibit the government" in its endeavor to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union on the cessation of nuclear tests. He apparently shares the current obsession, prevalent in a sector of the scientific community and unfortunately communicated to the government, that a treaty to end nuclear tests is somehow inevitably the beginning of disarmament and a guarantee of peace. This is nonsense. For my part I maintain that nothing should inhibit the government in providing...
Popular Vote. Montana Democrat Mansfield is the current leader of the crusade to cast out the college, choose the President by popular plurality. Disadvantage: a national popularity contest would be a body blow to that unique American creation, the federal system, which gives considerable weight to the rights of states...
...talking point by the U.S. military government's generously increased compensation to farmers whose fields had been gobbled up by Air Force runways and Army housing. Ranged against the People's Party was the moderate, pro-U.S. Liberal-Democratic Party headed by scholarly Seisaku Ota, 56, current chief executive of the local government. The Liberal Democrats, too, plumped for reunification with Japan, but unlike their opponents, wanted it to come about gradually and without ruining the Ryukyus' prospering economy -which depends on the billion-dollar network of U.S. bases and the presence of some...
...troops mysteriously call off a military operation. Inevitably, the priest's miracles are less convincing than his miseries. Yet through Don Ardito's occasional wonderworking, Novelist Coccioli compellingly argues his central thesis: that the saint is not a spiritual generator, but a spiritual conductor through whom the current of godliness electrically flows. It is apparent long before novel's end that Don Ardito had never actually faltered in his faith, and that what he had mourned as loss of soul was really the dross of self...
What Waugh offers in his current jottings of his African jaunt, mainly in Kenya, Tanganyika and the Rhodesias, is really a novelist's notebook, full of swiftly sketched scenes and characters who. not surprisingly, speak like people in Waugh fiction. There are astute little studies of key figures in African history, including Cecil Rhodes, an empire builder for whose financial chicanery and ''Anglo-Saxon'' racialism Waugh expresses intense distaste, and the tragic Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. for whom he has intense admiration. And there is a truly Waugh-like figure. "Bishop" Homer...