Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South may succeed in their obstruction of justice for many years. The Administration has a clear obligation to allieviate the Negro's status of second-class citizenship as soon and as effectively as possible. In the words of John Maynard Keynes, "In the long run, we shall all be dead." There is no justification for allowing these people to be deprived of their constitutional rights any longer...
...himself stand for. So does Philosopher Mortimer J. (How To Read a Book) Adler, a longtime friend, who admits "my own low fascination with the show" but adds: "I'm aghast that anyone would have this kind of information in his head. I wouldn't be caught dead with it. I just can't believe it isn't a mental burden."* Others, including faculty members at St. John's itself, point out that Van Doren's mind comes through on TV not as a card-index file but as a reasoning instrument that explores...
...opinion of Critic Clifton Fadiman, because of his family heritage. "Charlie was brought up to be unconscious of the fact that he has an inferior or superior," says Fadiman. "Because of this, he never starts to press. The Van Dorens represent a tradition of people that is almost dead now, like Thoreau and Emerson. They have their roots in the 19th century. They are content and confident in themselves...
Eugenia began life, under its maiden name of The Europeans, as a Henry James novel. After 78 years it has emerged-in Randolph Carter's adaptation-as a vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead. Thereby, dead and dangling from its gibbet, hangs a tale...
...surplus once the crisis is past. The problem could be solved easily, say the independents, if the big companies would divert their heavy oil imports from Venezuela to Europe instead of using them to supply their East Coast refineries. So far, the major companies have refused. They are dead set against rerouting their imports until they have a firm guarantee that domestic industry will make up the difference fast enough to supply their U.S. markets...