Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common consent, the force of young Hussein's courageous personality has been what chiefly held Jordan together. The overwhelming majority of his subjects are former Palestinians, many of them refugees, without any devotion to Hussein. Increasingly, the King has excluded the more literate but less trustworthy Palestinians from key posts in the army, depending instead upon tribal loyalties of the Bedouins in eastern Jordan. Only martial law upholds the government, only the army's loyalty sustains the throne, only U.S. aid poured in at the rate of $50 million a year keeps the economy going. Since Hussein threw...
...annual sewing contests with contestants winning $210,000 in prizes. One return prize for the industry is more and more younger sewers: the average home sewer's age has dropped from 45 in 1928 to 27 now, and by 1960 millions of teen-agers will be sewing. A common but fashionable wedding present for suburban brides: a sewing machine...
Soon after he stepped in as president, Florence sent out a memo in which he said that loan officers were relying too much on statistics in granting loans, and not enough on common sense. Florence made a rule that any one officer could grant a loan, but it took more than one to turn down a borrower. "At Republic," says President Stanley Marcus of Dallas' Nieman-Marcus, "nobody thinks they're doing you a favor by lending you money. They look on banking as a commodity to sell, not a privilege...
Critic-Author Aline B. Saarinen (wife of Architect Eero Saarinen) makes the point in a study of great American collectors published this week (The Proud Possessors; Random House; $5.95): "Their overpowering common denominator is this: for each of them, the collecting of art was a primary means of expression...
...powerful and peculiar picture, is the son of a well-known Swedish clergyman, and he says that the film was inspired by childhood memories of "the strange vegetation of medieval paintings and carved figures on ceilings and walls" in churches where his father preached. Working with several of the common themes of medieval art (the Black Plague, the Wise Fool, the Night Journey, Death Sawing at the Tree of Life, the Game of Chess with Death), Moviemaker Bergman has attempted "to express the modern dilemma" in the form of a medieval morality play-a tall order which he is seldom...