Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mrs. Pusey moved into 17 Quincy Street five years ago, the living room bookshelves were empty, and this drew an admonition from a chatty friend. "My dear," she told her, "you don't know what a bad impression it makes for the President of Harvard to have empty bookcases...
...reminded of Bouree, and Lotta, and Vieri. And of course I must think of Belasz and Tolespa, and dear little Treyispa: and Grondi and Bartolo. God, Felipe," Zendie said, "those afternoons in the piazza, and the evenings on the Bierenspitzenplatz, and the mornings at La Dolope," the girl read, tapping her cigarette drily over the ashtray. The white-caps are like diamonds, the girl enunciated...
...traveled 250,000 miles telling the story of the D.P.s. "My subject is not exciting," he warns his listeners. "My subject is misery." But that very misery, he feels, may "serve to unite us," to establish, at least as a beginning, a "Europe of the heart . . . Two ideas are dear to me. The first is that for us each refugee is a man, a being of infinite worth, who deserves all our attention, all our love, whatever his nationality, his religion, his learning, his poverty, his moral misery. The other idea is. so to speak, the certainty of the deep...
...very day after the Harriman endorsement, Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff in her "Dear Reader" column, wrote warmly of "ebullient" Nelson Rockefeller, pointedly inquired: "Are you sure that Averell Harriman is really the most independent, liberal gubernatorial candidate?" Then on the front page of the final edition, on the night before election, Post readers got a furious Schiff assault on Harriman: "Governor Harriman's recent snide insinuation that Nelson Rockefeller is pro-Arab and anti-Israel should not be condoned by any fair-minded person . . . If you agree with me, do not vote for Averell Harriman tomorrow...
Losing Her Heart. Three days after election, both Publisher Schiff and Editor James A. Wechsler took to print to explain what had happened. Said Dolly to "Dear Reader": "Time was running out. No one else had dared or cared to refute Harriman's unfair insinuation that Rockefeller was hostile to Israel." Said Editor Wechsler, in a signed editorial: "Mrs. Schiff and I spent many hours over a period of two months discussing the decision . . . Much as I differ with her final conclusion, I know it was not an easy one for her." At the point where some...