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...years. Toward Common Sense. As deeply anti-Communist as Ernie Bevin was, Cousins is unwilling to leave the present cry for higher wages to the leftists. Last year when he was invited to address the businessmen's powerful Institute of Directors, half a dozen businessmen quit in disgust. Cousins warned the businessmen that labor is willing to make sacrifices if everyone else is, but it is "insulting to talk about equality of sacrifice to men who know full well their safety margin is a fraction of that enjoyed by others." He adds: "Great Britain is still the place where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Ernie Bevin's Steps | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Brooklyn typesetting-equipment firm, had other ideas about how his son should be spending his time. Says Cozzens: "My father was a proficient tennis player and a good swimmer. He used to say to me, 'You should be a man.' He looked at me with a certain disgust, and Mother would say, 'Oh, but think how intelligent he is!' He was a practical man. and he was bitterly disappointed in me. and would be today. He was an austere Episcopalian who knew his duty and did it. He wouldn't think writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...favorite white sharkskin suit would not be proper at the Royal Thai court. He dispatched an aide on an emergency trip to Hong Kong, but when Diem took one look at the Western-style cutaway, striped pants and grey top hat that the aide brought back, he snorted in disgust and refused to wear them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: New Directions | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...easily. In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists. He was fined a quid ($2.80) for his violence, but the sentiment that prompted it-disgust at a young peer who had dared to call his Queen a prig in print (TIME, Aug. 12) -was echoed even in the words of the sentencing magistrate, who declared that "95% of the population of this country are disgusted and offended by what was written, but your action only made a most unsavory episode more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Peer & His Peers | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...well-intentioned as Mr. de Caussin's "explosive charge of thought" was, it is regrettable that his tragic plight lends emotional influence to his appeal. The ironical probability is that the man whose atrocity prompted such remarks would react with similar disgust to the sexual stimuli that Mr. de Caussin denounces. Let's open our eyes to the brand of pseudo-moralistic views that produces such warped personalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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