Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...gentle and gradual" reduction you portray comes in my case as a violent and shocking upheaval. My family (six children) has been residing temporarily with relatives in Pennsylvania and New York awaiting overseas orders. My household goods are partly in permanent storage in Denver, partly in temporary storage to be shipped when my family arrives, and partly with the family. My eight-passenger station wagon is here with me, while my wife drives her father's car. My children have been anxiously hoping for their travel orders, which would have brought them over in January. (When he was asked...
...gradual revelation of Vogler's disgust with the world (visually depicted by the carefully-directed progression from impenetrability to utter weariness in his facial expression) occurs while a committee of cynical officials reviews the troupe's act to see whether it is suitable for the towns-folk. The enertainers--a youthful coachman, the cunning and comical manager, Tubal, Vogler's wife disguised as a man, and an old hag who claims to be a witch 200 years old--then go off on their own to adventures both comic and serious, romantic and metaphysical...
...gradual strangulation or an immediate slaughter, but it will be murder none the less. The Crimson may yet have a long way to go before at can think of beating Yale, but last week's 55-39 victory over Springfield was not an indication of this year's true potential...
...most important Afro-Asian deviation from the Communist line revolves around the Marxist theory of the victory of the proletariat, according to Schwartz. Despite a gradual shift in emphasis to Russian and Chinese national interests, the identification of the Communist Party with the international working class is still "the cement which holds world Communism together." The "implicit ideologies" of the emergent nations, on the other hand, claim to speak for the entire people of their countries, and hence are quite nationalistic, Schwartz maintained...
...festivals, cockfights, legong dances and gala cremations. Burma is not much like Kipling's description of it, but Mandalay, Pagan and Rangoon have thousands of superb Buddhist monasteries and gold-domed temples alive with tinkling silver bells. With newer and better hotels, steadily improving plane service and a gradual understanding of visitors' needs, tourist traffic in the Far East is up 20% over 1959, should total 890,000 for this year...