Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark basement with a lot of other theologians, is trying to translate knowledge of the real world into dualistic mumbo jumbo. The most you can accomplish that way is to produce a few pages of high-sounding argument without once having to refer to reality . . . Come on, TIME, dig the culture concept and a little bit of scientific method if you want to play in the intellectual big leagues. You and Reinhold Niebuhr are sticking your heads into the same sandpile and waving your tailfeathers while the world goes...
...born in Moscow, where he became a respected journalist and lawyer. He was a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and secretary-general of the constitutional assembly in 1918. The following year, with the Bolsheviks in power, Vishniak fled to France, and eventually to the U.S. To help dig out the story of what is really happening in Russia today, Vishniak relies on his close contacts with Russian exiles, a filing-cabinet memory of his own days in Russia, and constant reading of Russian periodicals...
Rough History. To keep the show authentic, Macdonnell and the three writers who provide scripts constantly dig away at the history of Dodge City, whose Chamber of Commerce recently wrote to say that "as near as we can determine, Matt lived here at one time." On the other hand, Kansas' Governor Edward F. Arn feels that the program is a little too realistic; last week he used a few minutes of Gunsmoke air time to assure listeners that "Dodge City today is a far cry from Dodge City of the past...
...putting them up in the best hotels. Furthermore, he pays them well (up to $50,000 a year for such stars as Fitzgerald). "I figure you can live a lot longer with yourself if you share the gains with your people," he says. "I don't dig getting too hungry...
...said the President, was the thought that he had developed a good deal of antagonism toward the press. He didn't know why people felt he had any hostility toward newsmen. He had been dealing with the press for years, and had found nothing but a desire to dig at the truth, and the press had been open and forthright about it. This is the kind of relationship, the President said, that he and the press are going to continue. Then for 16 minutes Ike delivered some crisp statements, covering five main subjects, announced that there would be some...