Word: cow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Nelson Rockefeller paraded his best vote-luring grins on the hustings far north, brother Winthrop, the Arkansas cow baron, slouched into Dallas for the Texas State Fair, broadcast the joys of life as a simple farmer. "I never," he drawled, "want to go back to the city." Winnie, amiably noncommittal about his brother's try for New York Governor ("Most of my Democratic friends think Nelson has a real chance"), slyly dashed, for the time being, any stray ideas that he too might have political hankerings: "The state constitution requires that a man be a resident of Arkansas...
...have plied the turnstiles in modest but impressive numbers-everywhere, that is, except in the U.S., where the film played only in San Francisco's Vogue Theater. For almost two years the managers of Manhattan's 36 art theaters disdainfully refused the screen space to "that sacred cow opera, the kind of picture the critics love and the customers hate" (TIME, Feb. 17). But when Pather Panchali opened recently in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Cinema, it smashed the house attendance record set by Gervaise, and the distributor now reports that dozens of exhibitors are begging for prints...
...objecting to jets. Airports in Chicago, Los Angeles. Miami. Boston. Denver, Wichita, Oklahoma City and also Mexico City, Caracas and Vancouver, B.C. welcome and actively solicit jetliner test flights, figuring that an airport that cannot or will not take jets might as well go back to cow pasture...
...other centuries the cathedral was a proper symbol. "It was needed to dominate, even in the physical sense, by the employment of the mass and bulk and the arrogance of towers commanding the landscape-less to spy out the political enemy than to cow the underlings. The lacy frivolity of St. Patrick's cows nobody on [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue today, and the view of it from atop Rockefeller Center suggests nothing so much as an outsized Victorian toy anchored in the heart of modern commerce...
...they became. What they learned in the morning was contradicted in the afternoon. In medical school they found themselves treated as fledgling quacks; in ayurvedic school they found their questions brushed off. One student asked: "Does it really do any good to bake this medication over a fire of cow dung rather than some other fuel?" Replied the teacher: "You must have faith in what you are taught...