Word: uns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Politics, along with cigar smoke and talk of sweaters, pervaded the air around Soldiers Field. The Band presented its quadrennial poke at both parties. Saluting the advantages and disadvantages of the Nixon-Lodge ticket, the Band formed a UN, which evolved into a U-2; and in honor of Kennedy, the boys played "Younger than Springtime." After all the foolishness the Band announced its endorsement with the traditional "Winter-green for President...
...predominance of students in the demonstrations. We were told that the students consider themselves as the future leaders of the nation much more confidently than they do in America. They will become the "mandarins" in the social hierarchy and they are sure of it. This is a totally un-Marxist feeling and dependent on the memory of the bureaucratic hierarchies, both in Japan and China. Some Japanese observers were very glad that the events awakened the students from their political indifference. Without a passionate support by at least some important groups the young Japanese democracy cannot develop. This explains also...
...setting up a female branch at Karaouine, where the enrollment (6,325) now includes 1,197 women. Soon will come another big revolution: 3,000 cramped boarders will move to airy dormitories on the new campus outside Fez, which will boast 70 modern classrooms and laboratories and such un heard of niceties as a laundry, athletic field, infirmary and dining halls...
What is most rewarding and least nine-teenish about A Taste of Honey is its un-histrionic realism, which blinks at nothing but can be wry as well as harsh, can use sunlight to make soot the more visible, and can blend a knack for theater with a sense of truth. With its misfits and misfortunes, all too much of the play could have turned sentimental; only here and there is it a little so. Even more, it could have turned sensational, but bold black words like Illegitimacy and Homosexuality and Miscegenation boil down into what is in the world...
...loyalty to our allies and a stench of futility. Even if the regard of anticolonial nations is of no consequence, even if the support of the United Nations were not a compelling demand, even if support of United Nations intervention were really opposed by all our allies, the UN still offers hope in Algeria. France offers none...