Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adapted his own novel, End as a Man, a couple of seasons ago into an unexpected Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress Stapleton had the ungrateful chore of playing a woman of monumental stupidity...
...military and diplomatic chiefs than did Harry Truman. Naturally, this is especially true in Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson's field, where Eisen hower operates with great self-confidence. Unlike President Truman, who preferred to have the National Security Council prepare a recommendation that he could adopt, Eisenhower prefers to have the NSC brief him in full, so that he can make up his own mind...
While the new decision smacks of moral abdication, the Court was probably right to adopt a practical point of view. The consequences of open defiance to a "desegregation immediately" order, depending on southern tenacity, could have meant virtual military occupation. On the other hand, the plan of South Carolina to turn the school systems over to private hands would have meant an interminate revival of complete segregation and a lowering of already inferior educational standards. Nevertheless, the "wisdom" of the Court's decision only emphasizes the unpleasant truth that a sizeable segment of the population is not, at present, ready...
Surprising Resistance. Professional neutralists, e.g., France's Le Monde, thought they saw their ship coming in. Le Monde advised Frenchmen to adopt "an active neutrality," and Combat predicted: "The word neutral will be forced on all those who discredited it." Yet the surprising fact in last week's news was the unsuspected strength of the European resistance to neutral belts, Russian model. French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay took to TV to tell the French people that "German neutrality "would offer Germany all the temptations of the seesaw policy between East and West, the disastrous effect of which...
First, he asked the U.N. General Assembly to adopt a resolution urging 1) state control of "any form of propaganda of a new war ... in press, radio, cinema and in public statements," i.e., government censorship on the loosest of terms; 2) settlement of "outstanding international questions through negotiation between the powers"; 3) "withdrawal by the four powers of their occupation forces from the territory of Germany to their national frontiers" - suggesting that the Red army might pull back to Russia, not Poland, if the U.S. forces pulled back to the U.S., not France; 4) "dismantling of military bases on foreign...