Word: condonation
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...that glitters is not gold, unfortunately, and as a pundit Hugues has been known to give himself over to such dogmatizing that myriad grains of salt are required for most of us to digest his writings. Famed Concert Meister Eddie Condon was once so unkind as to remark to the effect that, "We aren't giving him lessons on how to squash grapes; where does he get off trying to tell us how to play hot music...
...blackly pessimistic chapter, Physicist Louis N. Ridenour, radar expert, explains how even the most elaborate precautions cannot keep a good proportion of the bombs from hitting their targets. And just a few bombs, he feels, will be enough Before the start of World War III writes Physicist Edward U. Condon of the National Bureau of Standards, atomic saboteurs may sow the U.S. with hidden volcanoes waiting to erupt on a chosen Pearl Harbor day. "A target, to be safe must be surrounded by a sanitary area at least a mile in radius. Any house can be as dangerous...
...guard against such sabotage, writes Condon, the U.S. would have to turn itself into a police state tighter than any in history. "Sabotage is no longer a threat to be kept in mind," he says. "It is a fearful danger, and an attractive possibility for an aggressor...
Washington's Constitution Hall, owned by the deeply dignified Daughters of the American Revolution, was getting more exclusive all the time. When famed Jazzman Eddie Condon tried to book his band into the hall, the manager threw up his hands in horror. Wrote he: "One of our restrictions prevents us playing jazz bands . . . because of the type of audience which attends .and which in some cases may be very destructive...
...Snorted Condon: "D.A.R. must mean Don't Allow Roughnecks. Un-American? Well, we don't strum Viennese waltzes; our stuff is as American as popcorn. Haven't those women ever heard of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?' We don't chase happiness, we create...