Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominant push for moderation, however, came from the U.S., which is bedeviled by the contradictions between its own deep anticolonial instinct and the fact that its most important cold war allies are the colonial powers. In the most important committee votes, the U.S. abstained. But the U.S. was primarily concerned that nothing be done to upset Western Europeans at so crucial a stage in Western rearmament. In the U.N.'s corridors and lounges, where the doubtful are influenced, U.S. delegation members worked to soften all proposals for provocative action in favor of postponement...
...with her 14-year-old protégé were more than those of a dedicated teacher and a pupil in whom she recognized the spark of genius. But smalltown tongues wag easily, and Saint-Maur's gossips, titillated by frequent glimpses of Alice and Raymond strolling in deep communion by the river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many a knowing snicker, snickers directed both at him and at the baby boy his wife...
...times the inspiration seems even weaker. And hand in hand with a good pungent coarseness in the characters themselves goes a certain touch of vulgarity in the treatment of them. Nor, for all its lowdownness, is Lunatics and Lovers quite to the gutter born, with a truly deep-seated sense...
...formal education-he quit school in the ninth grade-Walt has few formal habits of thought. He cannot bear to read a book ("I'd rather have people tell me things").* Yet his intellectual weakness only throws him back the more strongly on his principal strength: a deep, intuitive identification with the common impulses of common people. A friend explains that he is really "a sort of visionary handyman, who has built a whole industry out of daydreams. He has that rarest of qualities, the courage of his doodles...
...Post is the only daily really bucking the circulation trend. In the last five years it has boosted circulation 46%, to 416,622. When James A. Wechsler, 39, became editor in 1949, the paper was deep in the red financially, and its editorials often flirted with the Red politically (TIME, April 18, 1949). Wechsler changed course, and brought it into the black by leavening a heavy diet of Fair Deal politicking with such flamboyant series as "The V-Girls of 1954," "Unwed Mothers" and "Walter Winchell." At the same time, he wooed New York's big Jewish population with...