Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exact measure of the effect of Maverick Lee's intervention, Utahans will have to wait until the November general election. Even admirers of the Lee brand of political intransigence give him only an outside chance at best of beating Arthur Watkins...
...political climate in Utah (pop. 860,000) rarely erupts in thunderstorms visible beyond the border. But for three years, chain lightning has crackled between snow-capped Senior Senator Arthur V. Watkins and volcanic ex-Governor J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee. Watkins cannot forgive Lee a long record of sheer perversity-outspoken criticism of President Eisenhower, opposition to federal income tax, foreign aid, federal aid to education and Arthur V. Watkins. Lee cannot forgive Watkins for having openly supported a Republican candidate in 1956 who beat Lee out in his bid for an unprecedented third term. After his defeat Bracken...
...their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar middle class world. The leitmotif of loss of contact with the land resounds again and again until it crashes out in the final crescendo climax of the play. On one level Arthur Miller's play is one of violent social criticism if perhaps to call its roots Marxist would not be going...
...ARTHUR H. PATTERSON Sheepscot...
Nowhere was the soul-searching more noteworthy than among Britain's dyed-in-the-wool Marxists. Lifelong Communist Arthur Horner, bespectacled boss of the 730,000-man National Union of Mineworkers, phoned up the right-wing Daily Express to announce that he was "shocked and horrified" at this "needless folly." (He remains a Communist, apparently disturbed only by inept tactics.) In Scotland Mrs. Helen Wolff, sister of top British Communist John Gollan, quit the party in disgust. And to the surprise of one and all, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, opened his eyes long enough...