Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...States'-Righter Lawrence was reflecting the anguish and anger of other states'-righters as the Clinton, Tenn. integration case (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.) moved from the local schoolroom to the federal courtroom with the arraignment last week of 16 segregationist leaders before a federal judge on con-tempt-of-court charges...
True Cross Section. Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn taught at Brandeis until his death in January. Columnist Max Lerner and Critic Louis Kronenberger commute from Manhattan to give courses. E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish and W. H. Auden have lectured on modern poetry, and such theater celebrities as Marc Con nelly and Arthur Miller have taught contemporary drama. "A school," says Sachar, "is not a curricular philosophy. It is the people you bring...
...Symphony. Faster movements, such as the final section of Tschaikowsky's 4th Symphony, generally fared better. Here, even though some of the performers were out of tune and others came in at the wrong instant, most of the faults were lost in the onward rush of sound, allegro con fuoco, and the resulting music was not at all unsatisfactory...
Even without the benefits of lawn-mowing exercise, Harry Truman seems in good health, although one of his favorite dishes, chili con carne, has been banned by Dr. Wallace Graham, former White House physician, now a Kansas City surgeon. Bess "almost froze to death" in unheated springtime Europe, now has a touch of arthritis...
Across the U.S. as a whole, polio con tinued to increase in its usual seasonal pattern, but at a far slower rate than usual, giving the lowest total for the disease year (April 1 to date) since 1947. Chicago remained the hot-spot exception, with a new case tallied almost hourly, for a total of 384 at week's end (60% of the victims were children under five), with nine dead. Of 26 victims who had been vaccinated, only two had had three shots; six had two shots...