Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mr. Eaton made the comment on the FBI, he was only partially correct. He should have added the Roman Catholic Church and the not-so-American Legion. I'd like to see more men with power and money, like Cy Eaton, make their power felt in areas where it counts. If there were more Eatons and less Dulleses and Nixons, there would be less tension and division in the world...
...Khrushchev threw his arms round the speaker and, according to an old Russian custom, kissed him three times. It was, said a Soviet reporter, "as if not just two men but two great brotherly people had embraced." But Chou himself was forced to render tribute to Khrushchev for his "correct leadership" as a party theorist. About one new idea from the busy brain of Nikita Khrushchev Chou was significantly silent. In tossing out ideas for all kinds of Soviet-style disarmament plans, Khrushchev proposed an atom-free neutral zone in the Pacific, vaguely defined but seeming to include Red China...
...years of democracy," rumbled Orson Welles in the film The Third Man, "the only thing the Swiss have invented is the cuckoo clock." This gibe was not even correct: a German in the Black Forest invented the cuckoo clock. But it barely ruffled the Swiss, who often appear to think that they, not the Greeks, invented democracy, and that only they understand its proper practice. The cardinal rule of Switzerland's unwritten democratic law is that only men shall vote. In the rest of Europe, only tiny Liechtenstein and Monaco also deny the ballot to women...
...almost every material blessing, Levine finds the U.S.S.R. far behind the U.S. But where Russia is ahead, he does not hesitate to say so, e.g., Russian autos have a "clock on the dashboard that almost invariably tells the correct time...
Ranged against him is the Rev. Mr. Syson of nearby St. Enoch's. Syson is a World War II flying hero whose Anglican orthodoxy is correct and painless. Most of his parishioners agree with him that Preedy is a humbug, but Preedy's miracles, performed in public, have convinced a few. Syson sets out to stop Preedy, and the matter comes to court. Not only does Syson fail, but he begins to re-examine his own faith. Like Gary himself, he does not deny God, but finds surer manifestations of him in the ordinary give and take...