Word: beholdenness
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Cowboys liked to think they were beholden to no one. The Lone Star Trail is full of defiance in the saddle...
...hero, Fanfani had to give the appearance of preserving his policies. As usual, there was plenty of politics mixed in the oil. E.N.I, in its freewheeling way is much admired by the Nenni Socialists, whose displeasure could bring down Fanfani's precariously balanced Cabinet. Many Italian politicos are beholden to E.N.I., which under Mattei practiced a deft and munificent nonpartisanship. E.N.I, was one of the largest contributors to Fanfani's Christian-Democratic Party, gave generously to other political parties. Italian politicians who could find time to write reports for E.N.I, or give lectures to its officials were well...
...Albert a last blow. He called attention once more to his differences with Albert on civil rights, and for good measure mentioned Albert's "certain natural district problems with the oil industry," thus insinuating that Albert, a onetime oil-company attorney representing an oil-producing state, would be beholden to oil interests as majority leader...
...Abram Tertz has been variously reported to be a professor in a Russian university, a prominent Russian novelist, or Poet Yesenin-Volpin himself. In his new work (Pantheon; $2.95). he lashes out against the state-dictated code of "socialist realism," which reduces authors to mere copywriters of Communist propaganda, beholden to "Purpose with a capital P." Writes Tertz: "A poet not only writes poems, but helps, in his own way, to build Communism. So, too, do sculptors, musicians, agronomists, engineers, laborers, policemen and lawyers, as well as theaters, machines, newspapers and guns." Soviet literature, says Tertz, has become the false...
...election. At that time voters will have to make their choice from a list including not only Wagner and Levitt, but also Republican Candidate Louis J. Lefkowitz and City Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa. Gerosa has broken with both the mayor and the Tammany bosses, will run as an independent beholden only to "God and the good people." Said one reform Democrat in Manhattan last week: "We're stuck with four hacks. Gerosa is a sham. Lefkowitz is a mediocrity. Levitt is Carmine's boy. And Wagner is Wagner...