Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Jones: "Now the dynasty of Whites is receding into history. But a terrifying thing is happening. All three are blending, becoming one superman known as simply White, who knew everybody, went everywhere, held every imaginable opinion. When I discuss household problems with Maria, the maid, I am again up against this paragon Senhor White. This fabulous journalist, it appears, liked many fruits for breakfast, no fruits and no eggs, eggs with bacon and four eggs...
...said was its proper sphere, i.e., protection of states' rights within the new Federal Republic. A resentful Bundesrat, after a mere 15 minutes' debate, voted unanimously to ignore his appeal, and to debate the entire treaties, paragraph by paragraph. Moreover, it declared, it could not possibly discuss either treaty until the Federal Constitutional Court hands down a decision on the constitutionality of German rearmament-a decision not expected for at least three months...
What had Fine and Ike talked about? "Practical politics," said Fine, obviously pleased with all this. "I never discuss anything else but." Had he made any commitments? None. But he had agreed to Ike's suggestion that Pennsylvania's 70 delegates and 70 alternates get together this week at the Eisenhower farm outside Gettysburg, Pa. for a picnic. Who will give the party? "Eisenhower," said Fine firmly. But there wouldn't be any announcement then on how the Pennsylvania delegation stands. The delegates were going to meet with Senator Taft later. Fine didn't know just...
Then a reporter asked a logical question. Had Fine talked patronage with Ike? Fine, who might control the Republican nomination because he controls the vote of 32 of the uncommitted Pennsylvania delegates, answered quickly: "No sir, we didn't discuss it at all. Personally, I am interested in principles, not patronage." He paused, and then added: "At this time...
Philosopher Mortimer Adler consistently admitted that the idea was "a sort of megalomania with me": he had long wanted to set up a staff of scholars whose one job would be to discuss and analyze the main issues in the thinking of Western Man. Last week, as he resigned his post as professor of philosophy of law at the University of Chicago, Adler, 49, announced that he was going to San Francisco to head a new Institute for Philosophical Research-the first of its kind in the world...