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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quantitative to Qualitative. While most liberals are clearer, at this point, about what they are not than about what they are, some are giving deep thought to the future. A chorus of liberal ayes greeted Columnist Walter Lippmann's recent definition of the mission of the Democratic Congress: "It would be to prepare public opinion for the future, which is not yet here but is near at hand. It would be to prepare public opinion for the decade of the '60s, which, assuming that there is no war, is bound to be an era of great innovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Moment of Truth | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Nothing," says Columnist Lucius Beebe, who became a steady visitor, "interrupted the continual tumult that was life at the Garden of Allah. Now and then the men in white came with a van and took somebody away, or bankruptcy or divorce or even jail claimed a participant in its strictly unstately sarabands. Nobody paid any mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of the House Party | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Splash in the Night. Everyone was delighted when Humorist Benchley moved in, accompanied by Columnist John McClain, who trundled Bob from party to party in a wheelbarrow when walking was out of the question. At the Garden Benchley created some of his most memorable epigrams. There, when a friend said that drink was a slow poison, Bob, nose down in a beaker of martinis, answered: "That's all right. I'm in no hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of the House Party | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...village's new budget, such as the library's request for $91,000 (cut by nearly one-third) and the building commissioner's request for a $2,500 car (cut to $1,800). Explained President Jack Mabley, who makes his living as a Chicago Daily News columnist: "There's a feeling of frustration and desperation among the taxpayers I meet, and this is one small way of doing something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Block That Tax Boost! | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...deal on those Eyetalian sports cars." Appearing at San Francisco's hungry i last week (at $2,500 a week), Bruce seemed to amuse most of the customers, outraged many, and quickly got into a feud with the San Francisco Chronicle's celebrated columnist Herb Caen, who called Bruce a bore. Lenny retaliated by announcing elaborately during his act that Herb Caen "is not a transvestite, not a Commie, does not tint his hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Sickniks | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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