Word: arthur
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Dose of Urgency. When it came time next day to present domestic proposals to Republican leaders, the only Cabinet member with a ready-to-deliver program was Labor Secretary James Mitchell (see LABOR). Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield renewed his pitch for postal rate increases. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom promised to develop some sort of plan to improve U.S. scientific training (significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section...
...music mocks itself-in a trumpet jeer or a pizzicato poke-the dancers mock the music with a hop, skip or bump. Most dramatic bits: Canadian-born Melissa Hayden's stunning solo variation and a languorous, sensual pas de deux exquisitely danced by Virginia-born Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell, a talented Negro member of the company. The whole work takes less than 25 minutes, but it unmistakably shows Composer Stravinsky, 75, and Choreographer Balanchine, 53, at the top of their formidable form...
What these people chiefly disliked about Roosevelt is that he did want to change things, and many of them found reason to scorn him. "His smart friends tended to regard him as overmuch of an intellectual," according to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "and the girls of his own set called him 'the featherduster' because of supposedly shallow and priggish qualities...
Going from professional to non-professional, Mrs. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. has an exhibition of her work at Adams House. Over the years painting has become increasingly popular as a pastime over and beyond the TV inspired filling-in of numbered spots. Even the President copies picture post cards in Colorado or paints pictures of Bobby Jones when he isn't up to the game himself. One Fine Arts professor attributed a rise in student interest in his field largely to reproductions and publicity in Time and Life. But it is doubtful that Mrs. Schlesinger takes her cue from Henry...
Appearing on a TV chitchat show in Chicago, Boston Pops Orchestra Conductor Arthur Fiedler was hesitantly asked if he dislikes any special kind of music-such as, maybe, rock 'n' roll. He astonished many adult listeners by replying: "I like rock 'n' roll-a certain amount of it. I think that's completely American...