Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office of Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater jingled one morning last week with the kind of invitation that many a Republican on Capitol Hill will await breathlessly during the next year. Could the Senator have lunch that day with top members of the White House staff to discuss ways of helping him in his bid for re-election in 1958? Barry Goldwater, personal friend of the President and chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1955, drew in his breath and gave his polite answer: No, he did not think it would be right for him to come...
...discuss this question intelligently," Eisenhower replied, "only in the light of the age-old truth that the security position of a country is not determined wholly by the troops that it keeps. It is determined also by their economic, their spiritual, their intellectual strength, as well as their purely military." Britain, said he, in a mixed metaphor that fascinated the experts (see PRESS), "has had a really heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water." So the British are "trying ... to cut their cloth, you might say, according to what they...
Conversation (Thurs. 8:30p.m.,NBC). Humorists S. J. Perelman and Harry Kurnitz join Host Clifton Fadiman to discuss "What I Would Do If I Had $10 Million...
...British Scholar John Strugnell, a Presbyterian. The atmosphere at the Scrollery is probably unique. Says Lutheran Claus-Hunno Hunzinger, of Germany's University of Gottingen: "Every now and then one of us here will discover something new, and will cry out, and everyone will crowd around to discuss and suggest. It's the only situation I know in the study of the humanities where scholars are working in the same field at such close quarters...
...poetry in this issue is hard to discuss. It is hard not only because poetry is always hard to discuss but because good poetry is hard to write. There is so little good poetry and so much bad poetry that every reviewer is inclined to view the extermination of poets as a public service. And yet an Advocate reader cannot help remembering that this poetry is well above the local average...