Word: cheapening
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Concerning his plans for the future Truman remained noncommittal. Last week he turned down at least two jobs paying $100,000 a year or more because he didn't want to cheapen the presidency by trading on his name. "I think Herbert Hoover has handled himself perfectly," said Harry. Closest to his heart was his plan to establish a Truman memorial library and research center on the family farm in Grandview, but that would have to wait until the Truman Library Fund had raised $1,500,000-a goal it was still far from reaching. Later...
...grows up. Few writers have had much luck in trying to describe a lonely child of nature in a natural setting. Author Russ does better than most. But just as swamp drainage and encroaching civilization tarnish Jesse Geronimo Gundyhill's idyllic way of life, so do they cheapen the second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman who bore them, while Keeta gets herself just about the nicest...
...launched on unprecedented peacetime spending for armament, is in for a whole decade of inflation. Wages, warned Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson this week, can never go back to pre-Korea levels since the U.S. is "still an expanding economy." When costs and prices rise and dollars cheapen, savings can be protected only by converting them into ownership of "things"-including shares in the land, tools, bricks & mortar of U.S. industry. Moreover, arms spending, already at the rate of $2.5 billion a month, is really just getting under way, will rise to at least twice that before it tapers...
...with representing man's base instincts, is translated "optimistically." As excellently played by Robert Fletcher, the deformed beast becomes neither repulsive nor depressing. His Caliban would be at home in Alice's Wonderland, or in any child's wonderland, for that matter. Though humorous throughout, Mr. Fletcher does not cheapen his character with the low comedy possibilities offered him. He is grotesque, yet wholesome; funny, but still moving and touching when need...
With the help of its more professional members, ICCASP has also learned to avoid some of the minor blunders of politicking. Explained a Hollywood member: "Ingrid Bergman would never be sent off to a small neighborhood meeting because it would cheapen her glamor value. Groucho Marx wouldn't attempt to talk to a ladies' society, but would leave it to Sterling Hayden or John Garfield...