Word: cloys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Myrivilis allows for more sentimentality than most; yet it does not cloy. The reason is quite simple: that is how things are. Smaragthi remains consistent to the end, unmarried, herself a sort of mermaid Madonna who rolls naked in the sea like a porpoise but shrinks with revulsion from a man's touch. The fishermen soak up the local booze, beat their wives, and listen with awe to the tavernkeeper's yarns about the wonders of America, where he made his pile. An ancient crone tells wondrous fairy tales. A pathetic schoolmaster dreams of the great...
...latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group played a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading "Death is the only language death can speak," along with several other poems on the same subject, some in the audience found the idea of the fugitive reunion beginning to cloy...
...charge of the United States Department (lending and deposit relations with banks, other businesses outside Manhattan) in 1949. He succeeds J. Stewart Baker, who continues as chairman of the executive committee and as one of Chase Manhattan's two top executive officers (the other: Chairman John J. Mc-Cloy). David Rockefeller, youngest son of John D. Jr. and nephew of former Chase Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, was born in New York City, educated at Harvard ('36), with postgraduate study at the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago in 1940. After...
...blame the Allies for failing to understand that they were really fighting to defend the West . . . They are, in short, a much-perplexed people, trying to find their way out of a deeply disturbing and humiliating experience without loss of self-confidence and self-respect." Mc-Cloy's conclusion: "The all-prevailing power of the [Nazis] has left many former officials with a longing for a return to power. This element and the undercurrent of extreme nationalism . . . might form a combination willing again to set Germany off on another disastrous adventure. This is a possibility which cannot be ignored...
...SECRETARY OF STATE: 1) John J. Mc-Cloy, ex-U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and old Ike friend from the days when McCloy was Assistant Secretary of War under Henry Stimson; 2) New York's Governor Tom Dewey (who may prefer to serve out his term in Albany) ; 3) Statesman John Foster Dulles, one of Eisenhower's foreign-policy advisers during the campaign; 4) ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman...