Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to be that no government feels it can take the responsibility for starting on the road to disarmament unless it can feel assured, on the basis of an effective control system, that the security of its country is not being jeopardized." Hopefully, Ireland's Foreign Minister Frank Aiken revived the idea of a U.N. standing army in a world of general disarmament. This won him dutiful applause, but as a practical proposition, it had roughly the value of the perennial resolution, on leaving the dentist's chair, to brush one's teeth three times...
Although Emily Dickinson lived, in the words of Conrad Aiken, "a life perfectly devoid of outward event," there was one great mystery about her. To an even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means only, theory, was due to an early, unsuccessful love affair with a married man. Alison's House is based on this interpretation of Miss Dickinson's life, despite the fact that Alison Stanhope, the Emily Dickinson of the play, has been dead eighteen years by the time the play takes...
...Aiken Approves Possible Exemption...
More emphatic approval of possible exemption came from Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy. "If they do it in the Nat. Sci.," he declared, "then I'm all for it across the board...
...George Aiken (R-Vt.) said that unless Dulles is able to resume full-time work by the foreign ministers' meeting in Geneva, May 11, "I would expect he would resign...