Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appropriations Committee, taking up the money bill, voted 13 to 8 (with six Democrats joining Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and Idaho's Henry Dworshak in opposition) to recommend $4.3 billion in new and carried-over money for the program. Aside from the total sum itself, the big clash was over an amendment by Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges to cut off military aid to Yugoslavia. The amendment was defeated, but the pair have promised to renew the battle when the bill goes to the balky Senate this week. Predicted Minnesota's Edward Thye wearily...
Unfortunately, A House on the Rhine is termite-ridden with bygone clichés ("Don't bring her into this vile business. She's made of other clay"). But Author Faviell's dramatic documentation of the lawless legacy of the war and "the clash of old and new values in the mind of young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted...
...British civil servant persuaded a British radio manufacturer to produce a cheap, durable set suitable for the bush. The result was the Saucepan Special, a battery-operated, four-tube set with a 50? saucepan as its cabinet. The sets are painted blue, the only color that does not clash with any of the region's innumerable tribal superstitions. Most important of all, they are insect-proof. Last week, with 60,000 sets in operation and an average of nine listeners per set, the Saucepan Special linked almost every Rhodesian village with the outside world...
...world, all television is concentrated in the i^-to ^minute commercial. Explains Adman Wilson: "It may be a matter of indifference to the layman but to agencies and sponsors it is life and death. The announcer is a little like the guy in an orchestra who has to clash the cymbals at a certain moment. If he goofs, the entire symphony is ruined-at least, as far as we are concerned." Julia seldom goofs. "I try to be natural, believable, sincere," she says in a dedicated tone. "It's not easy. On the stage you can take liberties...
...clash of strong cultures is likely to be a god-eat-god affair. Each may conceive the other as strange, wrongheaded, downright wicked. An individual caught up in such a conflict sees himself as a missioner to the heathen, clad in the righteous armor of the sole truth, his own. In this compact novel of grace and distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades...