Word: withdrawnness
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...harbor varying degrees of doubt and are actually against it; and that, although a small portion of the masses enthusiastically demand reform, the large portion of the masses still lack enthusiasm." Nine-tenths of the Red cadres (but not the Red troops) sent into Tibet from China have been withdrawn, local authority and schools have been handed back to the Tibetans, and a number of Red construction projects have been postponed. The Reds left some "upper-strata personages" on the state payroll although, as the Red document admitted, "there is nothing much to be done at present...
...restrictions are placed on donations to the Fund, but they are not used for additions to the College's physical plant. While the Fund Council is curtailing its operations, unrestricted revenue must be withdrawn from Program funds other than those earmarked for construction. The burden of the withdrawal will then fall entirely on donations allocated for faculty salaries, student aid, and library endowment...
Communist Everyman. Politically, Kolakowski cannot speak with an authority comparable to Yugoslavian Dissenter Milovan Djilas. But intellectually, he strikes more deeply at the Communist mystique. In his Nowa Kultura series, Kolakowski casts himself in the role of a Communist Everyman. First, he asks why so many party intellectuals have withdrawn from activity and buried themselves in non-political work and a general effort to avoid responsibility. The answer, he says, is that the party is driving its supporters into passivity by denying them the right of dissent...
...hold of that, they'd all be Catholics in three months"). To conservative French Catholics and the Vatican's Holy Office, it is a wrenching departure from tradition, alarming both by its content and the mood that produced it-so much so that the Vatican ordered it withdrawn, reportedly called on its author, Lyon-born Canon Joseph Colomb, to resign...
...Orval Faubus stood firm on his stand that no compromise is in sight unless nine Negro students are withdrawn from integrated Central classrooms...