Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather complicated." sniffed Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "A do-it-yourself kit for every farm commodity." hooted Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois: the executive branch "could completely divest itself of all responsibility." Argued Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken: "If farm groups can write their own tickets, some will ask: Why not let labor or industrial groups do the same thing?" Moving Again. The President's farm message was of a piece with other bits of farm policy that had slipped by all but unnoticed in the crowded...
...verse collections later, Jesse Stuart, now at 53 having left his Kentucky farm to teach for a year at the American University at Cairo, received the $5,000 award of the Academy of American Poets. Among his prestigious predecessors: E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Conrad Aiken...
...reaction to the release of Olmstead and McKone was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. But a few warning voices were raised. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken charged that Khrushchev was merely "playing power politics." Cried New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "There is no thaw in the cold war, and this doesn't change anything on critical matters like Berlin, Laos or the Congo...
...Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken. The author may be a little old-fashioned-he writes of inner torment without becoming mired in Freudianism-but his short stories are all well cut, and the best, of them are brilliant...
...Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken. Well cut, correct and a trifle oldfashioned, the author's short stories deal brilliantly with inward torment but less well with events; the best of them are of a very high order indeed...