Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each club, moreover, should send to the forum a delegation prepared to record the club's majority viewpoint on the topic. If a club must declare itself pro or con in the public meeting, there must be much prior discussion among its own members in order to decide on a stand. On the other hand, if groups sent individuals speaking only for themselves, the forum would soon degenerate into a series of personal testaments. This would hardly give students a chance to experience real parliamentary debates...
...leader of the gang (Humphrey Bogart) is a sallow old paranoid with nothing to lose but his worst enemy, the cop (Arthur Kennedy) who put him away. Bogart's younger brother (Dewey Martin) is a mixed-up little slumbunny with hot pants and cold feet. The third con (Robert Middleton) is a 260-lb. flitch of muscle directed by the brain of a badly brought-up six-year...
...must use all the latest preicate adjectives: "lunch," "shoe," "the most." You should show your sense of humor by giggling when you say something cute. And above all, you lose the game if you con less calling her because you think she's your type. You should appear at least to want to give her fun and laughs--dates, not tete-a-tetes...
Last month a strike flared when the commission blackballed John McLoughlin, an I.L.A. pier boss and an ex-con (13 years in Sing Sing), arrested at various times for burglary, assault, gun-toting and bookmaking. A fortnight ago, despite court injunctions and its contract, the I.L.A. shut down the whole port-without a strike vote or any formal demands. Union leaflets demanded that the Waterfront Commission show a "humane approach towards men with police records." State governments of New York and New Jersey stood pat behind the commission. Last week, after eight days on strike, the I.L.A. settled...
...Europe. Beginning a tour that will include the Continent for the first time since Arturo Toscanini took it abroad 25 years ago, the orchestra got the gladdest welcome and the biggest raves any orchestra has ever had at the Edinburgh Festival. The press was more pro than con. Sample pro: the Manchester Guardian's Neville Gardus noted that the scherzo of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 4 "received a performance which frankly left me ... speechless with wonder and admiration." Not so pro: John Warrack of the London Daily Telegraph found the same symphony played with "appalling force, shrieking with...