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...sensitive as "newshen" Jane [TIME, Grant Letters, about Dec. 21]? Newshen is one of the cleverest coined words. Short, flattering. To adults it connotes a plump, toothsome chick (no newspaperwoman I ever saw) in fine, glossy feathers (ditto). Stepping high and daintily, she delicately picks the wheat from the chaff...
...read the faintest marks and signs of caste as ably as a jungle tracker can read a spoor. But Sylvia, secure in the shelter of her father's wing, enjoys sticking her neck out. It is tedious always to be "Russell's daughter"-to swap sophisticated chaff with Daddy and his "high-color" business friends, to go to the Town Hall with "people of good family, olive-complexioned, with Good Hair." So Sylvia frequents the frame house of her Indian girl friend Naomi, where a gang of fascinating outcasts has created a Guiana version of Greenwich Village...
...Council is depending on its second question, asking for the methods used by accused professors, to separate the sincere answers from the groundless chaff. But since poll replies are anonymous, there is no chance for a further questioning. Any accusations made against a professor by nameless students can be denied but not debated...
When it was all over, perhaps 7,000,000 people had disappeared, either into the GPU mass burial pits or into the vast slave camps of Siberia. But Stalin could rest: he had destroyed many innocent people, but with the good grain he had also burned the chaff of the old Bolshevik Party, the chief challenge to his power. He himself slept well. The new generation of party members, which he set about recruiting and educating, were functionaries, meek & mild bureaucrats, with a mortal fear in their bowels...
...finest Secretaries of State left office last week. Brilliant enough to create profound policies, efficient enough to extract the best from his department, and bold enough to trust the experience, intellect, and judgment that went into foreign affairs during his regime, Dean Acheson is now reaping the sort of chaff great statesmen usually do in insecure times. When all has blown away, we suspect that Americans will appreciate fully the services of a man so well suited...