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...African countries have a strong bond in their present fear of exploitation, of a subtle neo-colonialism based on the economic interests of the former colonial powers. These colonial powers had not voluntarily moved out of Africa, Quay said, and they still have economic interests there...
Paul M. Sweezy '31, an editor of Monthly Review, concluded the forum, calling the present regime a "mere client" of the United States, which possesses the "largest neo-colonial empire in the world." Serious structural changes are necessary in the United States, the former Harvard professor added, "if the free world is to be prevented from becoming the exploitable world...
Died. Arthur Christiansen, 59, longtime (1933-57) editor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,300,000), largest Beaverbrook daily, who took command at 29, echoed the Beaver's neo-Victorian politics ("His the policy, mine the paper"), doubled circulation with splashy makeup and exhortations to "Keep the COMMON TOUCH"; of a heart attack; in Norwich, England...
Cage was on his feet with his mesmerized colleagues to take his solemn bows when the historic moment arrived. The audience-including an actor who was the only one to sit through the whole concert, and a neo-Dadaist who honored the occasion by wearing a bell around his neck-jumped to its feet for a spirited round of applause. "Bravo!" shouted the inwardly immobile. "Encore!" shouted a desperate...
...great chieftain in turn, at the end surrenders with Jan Christiaan Smuts. His girl ferrets out military secrets by flirting with British officers. After the war they start life anew, with 500 gold sovereigns saved from the looters by an aged Kaffir retainer. And so it goes in plummy neo-Hemingway prose, with three dozen major characters, 189 speaking parts, thousands of extras, and big-name guest stars playing themselves-War Correspondent Winston Churchill, Army Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, Stretcher-Bearer Mohandas Gandhi...