Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson at Yale Sir: I wonder if you can identify the elderly lady and gentleman who appear in the photograph depicting Yale students heckling Stevenson [Oct. 15]? The contrast between the couple's mature demeanor and the yakking, jackal-hyena-like appearance of the Yale students is astounding...
...Nixon family." While that was a pardonable overstatement, efficient, proper Pat Nixon is indeed a good campaigner. She did all of the packing for trips, and astonished local women's-page editors by traveling with one suitcase.* Despite the campaign's pace she always managed to appear on the platform looking chic, fresh, interested and pleased, even when a meeting lasted three hours. Says she: "The important thing is not to look tired...
...public controversies has in fact been one of the main reasons for his continuing popularity. When he took office in 1953, he had a clear mandate to provide respite from the discords of twenty years of turbulent social change. As a self-styled political amateur, Eisenhower has tried to appear above the lively give-and-take that characterized relations with Congress during the Administrations of his two predecessors. By this abstinence, he has managed to retain much of his popularity with the "independent," who typically claims revulsion at the grubby business of competing for power...
Lillian Hellman seems most responsible. Her libretto strips down Candide to an unattractive caricature of itself. While the unity in Voltaire's book comes from the way each happening reflects on another so as to make all things appear absurd, the happenings are not related in Miss Hellman's version. They are absurd by themselves; the confusion lacks irony and is simply confusing. Miss Hellman makes the wanderings of Candide appear a series of unrelated but similar adventures...
...estimated 295 breakfasts, 1,150 luncheons, and 3,695 dinners, or two and a half dinners a day. At the same time, his Nixon-like campaign oratory has bristled with frequent free-swinging statements, such as his recent attack on Furcolo as the "most pious fraud ever to appear on a platform in Massachusetts...