Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wounded by the barbs of controversy, sensitive Lewis Strauss vowed never to accept another Government post once he stepped down as AEChairman. Big reasons why he took on the Commerce job despite that vow: 1) a conviction that much can be done on the international economic front to help the West win the cold war and 2) a desire to overcome his reputation as a man of war and big bombs -a reputation that devoutly religious Lewis Strauss thoroughly detests...
...Childish Task. Whether or not Soviet authorities will permit him to go to Stockholm for the Nobel Prize or let him accept the prize money ($41,420), Pasternak has small fear of official reprisal ("I am an old man; the worst which could happen to me would be death"). Whatever happens, Pasternak's way will be lonely, upright, and full of that fatalistic fortitude of which he once wrote...
...Market. In Paris last week the French tactic was to propose what the British presumably could not accept-that the 17-nation area become the same sort of tightly preferential trade club with common tariff walls as the French expect the six-nation community to be. That, of course, would require the British to throw over their whole imperial preferences system of trade. Behind this French position was heavy pressure from French industrialists and farmers to stick with the six-nation community now that the West Germans and other members have conceded them practically all the special protections and privileges...
...Harvard Dramatic Club production unhappily only suggests something of the beauty of this play, and not very often at that. There are no villains who must accept the blame for the lack of unqualified success. With two or three exceptions, the general level of competence and experience is just not high enough to do Chekov's work justice. But the production is not total failure, either, because two of the performers--Barbara Blanchard and Thomas Teal--are good enough to support it while they are on stage...
Concerning 16-year-old Diana Humphries, who shot her younger brother while her parents were out working: When will these working mothers accept the plain fact that what a child wants and needs in the home is simply a mother. And will they ever learn that no house needs carpeting, new furniture and appliances as much as a child needs the presence of a mother whose love, attention and energy will create a lively and happy atmosphere...