Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his grandfather, Rabbi Mendel Leib Levine, came to the U.S. from Russia, he took over Herman's religious training. Rabbi Levine, now an alert 90-year-old living in Tel Aviv, is one of the two men who, Wouk believes, have most influenced his life (the other: Columbia's late Philosopher Irwin Edman). "For 23 years," recalls Wouk, "my grandfather never ate any meat except fowl, because he insisted on personally seeing the slaughtering done according to the prescribed ritual...
...must use his head, for he is baseball's tactical commander, its platoon leader. He must watch the signs according to the batter, the score, the inning. He must hide his own signals from the runner on second, check his fielders as they shift position, be ever alert for the hit-and-run-the dangerous play that can be stopped before it starts by a catcher calling for a pitchout...
...most absorbing stories of our time is the one which tells how the U.S. people are changing the face of their country-for work, for play, for better living. The story weaves its way through each week's news in TIME: editors and correspondents are always on the alert for its many manifestations. But there is one man who bears a special responsibility for the story: Contributing Editor Alvin M. Josephy Jr., whose job it is to tell it through color photographs...
...regular traveling companion is a burly Irishman from The Bronx, James Rowley. 46, the special agent in charge of the White House Detail. In crowded reception halls, he moves at the President's elbow; when the President makes an address, Rowley is a pace behind him, impassive and alert; when the President rides in a car, Rowley sits in the front seat. Rowley went to work as a bank investigator at 18, but continued to go to school nights, nine years later earned his law degree from Brooklyn's St. John's University. In 1938 Rowley joined...
Sample lyrics: "You better feel that boogie beat, and get the lead out of your feet." Reuther still uses some of the old mechanical cliches of class-struggle philosophy. But he is too alert a man not to realize how much he has won for his followers within the framework of capitalism-and how much the picture holds within that same framework. In a recent speech Reuther said: "Movements release tremendous emotional forces, and they get into motion great dynamic qualities; then they tend to dissipate themselves. They sort of spend themselves. You always need to find...