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Columbia University, like Harvard, has received a multi-million dollar Ford Foundation grant for programs in international studies...
Master Sinner. In deference to Labor's unilateralist disarmers, Wilson had pledged that, once in office, he would not only scrap Britain's independent deterrent but also oppose the U.S.-backed multi-lateral force. However, in his talks with President Johnson in Washington, he had, in fact, not so much opposed MLF as proposed a way of enlarging and diluting it. In reporting on his talks to the party conference, Wilson hedged: he had not committed Britain to MLF. he said, and had entirely "reserved" his position. This was patently less than the whole truth, but enough...
...multi-racial nature of Lusotropical civilization and its ability to harmonize modern and native forms is its genius, Freyre believes. In the face of racial appeals by Asian and African leaders, he suggests that Lusotropicalism demonstrates that supranational communities can be built with cultural rather than racial bonds...
Lily has also perfected an electronic extra she calls a "multi-note rotating drum," a device which audibly sounds the notes as they are struck on the keyboard. "If Beethoven had had this machine," she enthuses, slightly missing the point, "he could have written a symphony in a week...
...opens with a preface by a fictional publisher explaining that Author Edward Thornhill has died in an auto accident in Catalonia, and that what follows is two abortive beginnings of his last novel, the novel itself, a chapter of memoirs, and a short story. The resulting collection, though inherently multi-tiered and multi-baffling, is an evocative elucidation by British Novelist Paul Scott of the incestuous interplay of experience and art that is the creative process...