Word: developmental
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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¶Jonathan Swift's preoccupation with scatology in Gulliver's Travels suggested a mind that "was emotionally arrested at an infantile stage of development."
1.) U.S. military intervention in the Chinese civil war would jeopardize this country's shaky position in the Far East. Fledgling Asiatic nations such as India, Pakistan, and the Indonesian Republic look upon the U.S. as symbolizing western imperialism and would consider the landing of U.S. military forces on Formosa...
"This epoch is of quite exceptional interest to the historians of the Soviet Union," notes Biographer Eckardt, who is a professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg. Like the Soviet historians, Eckardt goes over Ivan's matted reign with a fine-tooth comb; unlike them, he refrains...
Objective Best. The result is a painstaking, broad-viewed and valuable study of a vital period in Russian development, throughout which Historian Eckardt does his objective best to separate Ivan into two Ivans: 1) the Personal Sadist, 2) the Unifier, born out of his time, caught in the inexorable process...
Perhaps the best new development that could occur in history-writing would be one in which it could again be taken for granted that tyrants are under no inexorable, historical obligation to massacre their subjects.