Word: statelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penniless and stateless at the end of the war, Elmyr returned to Paris for some serious painting. In 1946, an English friend visited his studio and mistook one of his unsigned sketches for a Picasso. Fancying herself a bit of an expert, she offered to buy it. "Well, why not?" said Elmyr...
...anarchist thrust," as you put it, "leads nowhere," so does Marx's thrust, for his predicted future society, classless and stateless, without law and economic scarcity, free from disharmony and all evil, is no goal but a pipedream...
...core of Tango, Slawomir Mrozek's incisive comedy of debased manners, shattered forms, and the contemporary value vacuum. Mrozek, 38, is a Polish writer whose passport was canceled when he condemned Poland's role in the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He now lives in Paris as a stateless person...
Rudolf Nureyev may call himself a stateless person since his defection from Russia seven years ago, but that didn't stop Uncle Sam from clamping a claim on him. According to the Internal Revenue Service, the practically peerless dancer owes $30,642.70 in back taxes for 1963. Rudi says he used his New York City bank account to deposit funds from all over the world, not necessarily money earned in the U.S. The taxmen haven't been much impressed, so Rudi is trying a new step. He says IRS overcharged him in social security deductions. And he wants...
...passport only meant security to a majority of Asians. Many of them fully expected to return to India or Pakistan. The younger and more educated hoped to remain in Kenya while they could, then move to Britain or other Commonwealth countries. The Asians who wished to leave are now stateless or at best reluctant residents of Kenya. African animosity is certain to increase, and ironically more Asians will leave in the long run than if the British had done nothing...