Word: interestingly
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Considering the general ignorance and lack of interest that still prevail in this country, it can be no surprise that the State of the Union message contained no mention of Africa, and only the vaguest ideas relating to underdeveloped countries generally...
...experience of invasion proved unsettling to 6-ft.-tall Premier Phoui Sananikone, 56, and last month he reversed his anti-Communist stance in favor of "neutralism." Seven members of his Cabinet resigned, and the Committee for the Defense of the National Interest demanded that a provisional government be established. Premier Phoui, feeling menaced "politically and physically," last week handed his resignation to King Savang Vatthana...
...making machine. "If the rules for victory in a war game," he says, "do not correspond to what we actually wish for our country, it .is more likely that such a machine may produce a policy which will win a nominal victory on points, at the cost of every interest we have at heart, even that of national survival...
UNDERLINING the nation's ever increasing interest in Asia, three museums this week opened major shows of Asian art. In Washington the National Gallery staged an exhibition of haniwa (prehistoric ceramic tomb sculptures) lent by Japan. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts showed the Buddhist sculptures of Gandhara, on loan from Pakistan. Both shows were organized by Manhattan's Asia Society, which was formed in 1957 with the aim of cross-pollinating Eastern and Western cultures...
Moss Hart's Act One reflects the undying interest in the theater when a prime mover goes uninhibitedly candid; and Herman Wouk's This Is My God, while it surely owes much of its success to the fact that its author is a bestselling novelist, is nevertheless a competent and tender summary of the Jewish faith...