Word: beset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost immediately, troubles beset Mayor George Clough. George liked the gamblers but the gamblers did not like him. Said one: "We can't support a man who won't take money. If you can't cut him off, he's liable to get sore...
ICHIRO HATOYAMA, TIME'S cover subject this week, is a man who is both symbol and agent of renascent Japan, a country beset anew with internal struggles and aspirations ten years after the war. The story is a penetrating assessment of a Japan at the crossroads. It is the story of how pride and tradition, international beckonings and bickerings, are once again bestirring the Japanese nation...
...Traveling Lady (by Horton Foote) is a small-sized drama by a "promising" playwright (The Chase, The Trip to Bountiful) who continues to fumble. But it raises to stardom a very gifted young actress who continues to grow. Kim Stanley (The Chase, Picnic) plays a bewildered, hard-beset young mother, not very bright but full of courage, married to a no-good weakling just out of jail and soon heading back to it. She plays the part with force and feeling and an eloquently detailed sense of character, and it's a pity that she is stranded...
...also beset with a deep psychological unease: his right to speak for Asia was in question. "Meetings between the Prime Ministers of India and China are world events," he had proclaimed grandly in Calcutta. He cherished the belief that he could negotiate an Asian "area of peace," guaranteed by Red China, in counterblast to the "trivial" Manila Defense Pact. But Nehru's area of peace, it seemed, was already coming unstuck: neighboring Nepal complained about Red China's infiltration of its northern Himalayas; Burma, worried by Communist guerrillas in its own country, wanted tangible reassurance of Chinese good...
Perhaps, Dr. Lowenbach suggested to the Southern Psychiatric Association last week, the trick of "playing dead" may show that the opossum is even more beset than the average psychiatric patient by such traits as "severe anxiety, neurosis, depression, lack of initiative and recession into himself...