Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confident, but far from smug. Eisenhower and Dulles had not ended the cold war, nor had the people been lulled into thinking it was ended. What had ceased was the chronic crisis, the futile nail-biting, the frustrated tensions that previously surfaced in such phenomena as the pro-and-con McCarthy yawpings. Now, the U.S. had the idea that something constructive could be done about foreign affairs-and the idea of doing something constructive is the idea with which Americans feel most at home...
...moment he took a $1.50-a-day job as a water boy on a gang building a railroad for Anaconda Copper at Butte, Mont., there was never much doubt how Cornelius Francis Kelley would spend his life. Born in the mining country (his father was a mine superintendent), "Con" Kelley had copper in his blood. He went off to study law at the University of Michigan, started specializing in mine cases back in Butte. In a fledgling industry dominated by Irishmen and racked by legal brawls, Kelley quickly made his mark. He went to work for Anaconda, became its general...
...rather ambivalent attitude toward "The Young Girls," who "love in prudent silence on the frozen ground." Some allusions which bring to mind the Seven Dwarfs ("And start to work with soap, and heavy towels . . .") weaken the poem considerably. In his poem about Perseus, William Teunis describes the gods as "con-vanished," so it is somewhat jarring when they reappear "slamming the doors and pushing out the windows!" (His exclamation point...
...power total, enough to light 1,570,000 homes. Furthermore, the estimated costs of nuclear power are dropping rapidly. New York's Con Edison said that the electricity would cost only about 9 mills per kw-h v. 7.5 mills per kw-h for a standard, nonatomic power plant...
Critical Ball Game. Last month Seattle started to worry again. On his winter leave Conductor Katims did a grueling. 17-con-cert guest stint with the Houston Symphony. Word leaked out that Houston, which was in the market for a permanent conductor (TIME, Feb. 7), made Katims an offer-$30,000 a year, far more than he gets in Seattle (about $18,000). Seattle prepared itself to be conductorless once more...