Search Details

Word: clearers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...have no objection to a short prayer for Francis Powers, as some have suggested, but doesn't it seem more important for us to pray for a clearer national direction and a more genuine educational system, so that technicians like Powers might learn more than simply which buttons to push? All the tears, family sentimentality and public sympathy can't wash away the ''damned spot" of Powers' only apparent motive and interest: that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1960 | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Well satisfied with his face lifting of New Haven, Conn. (pop. 149,000), fourth-term Mayor Richard C. Lee, energetic slum clearer and chairman of the Demo cratic Advisory Council's subcommittee on urban problems, is eager to advise the nation's metropolises on their slum problems. Speaking to a predominantly Negro Sunday school group, Dick Lee, 44, last week suggested a strategic variation on Southern lunch-counter sit-ins that sent official eyebrows soaring in police headquarters across the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Amazing Mr. Lee | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...triumphs are Maurice Evans' sterling-silver-tongued Richard II, Ralph Richardson's roguishly intelligent Falstaff and Michael Redgrave's mettlesome, love-ravished Antony. They are the leaders of today's functional Shakespeare, in which action flows naturally along the firm riverbed of the verse-making clearer than ever that, while the play's the thing, to prove it the player must be the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: To Man From Mankind's Heart | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...make his point even clearer, Al Beiraq Editor Fadel S. Akl informed interested politicians that they could buy space either as a political advertisement or as a straight news story. Said Editor Akl: "Those who disagree with me politically will naturally have to pay more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paying the Piper | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...Hopeful Hubert Humphrey unhappily and often observed that he had every bit as much right to rate Hoffa's enmity as Jack Kennedy. And many an unlisted Senator and Representative felt downright injured at being left off Hoffa's purge sheet. For it was clear and becoming clearer that having Jimmy Hoffa and his hoodlum henchmen going after a politician's head could be a pretty good way for that politician to stay in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Heads on Their Shoulders | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Previous | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | Next