Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Windlestone Hall, a porticoed ocher pile surrounded by lawns, lake and a line of wind-blown beeches, 254 miles north of London. Anthony Eden was born there in June 1897, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an eccentric country gentleman who detested children and barking dogs with equal enthusiasm. At Eton, Anthony played a straight bat and pulled a respectable oar; then, like so many of Britain's public-school boys of his day, he went off to fight in Flanders...
...professorial success stories are not without cost. Campus TV celebrities run into a good deal of envious carping criticism from their colleagues. And there is the equal danger that the celebrities will grow too big for their professorial britches. Dr. Baxter, 59, recognizes that he has to be periodically cut down to size by his wife and daughter, who now greet him with "Here comes that pudgy, tweedy, twinkling, pink, bald bunch of enthusiasm." One of his wife's comments may be even more pertinent: "Thank God this didn't happen to you 30 years...
...Catholics on the other. Last year, when the present Liberal-Socialist government came into office, Socialist Leo Collard, the new Minister of Education, quickly made it clear that he intended to favor secular schools in the allotment of state education subsidies. In the previous Catholic government the principle of equal treatment had been applied to state schools, with some 712,000 pupils, and Catholic schools, with...
...commodities abroad for nonconvertible currencies over a three-year period. The Agriculture Department, buried to the eyes in its surpluses, wanted to use up all the authority in the first year, then go back to Congress for more authority; the State Department, however, wanted the program carried out in equal annual installments, to lessen the effect on world markets. President Eisenhower finally stepped in with a compromise solution: $453 piillion in the first year. The State Department wants most of the foreign-currency deals made in such key cold-war areas as India, Pakistan and Japan; Agriculture, on the other...
...paradoxical but simple ("I need my mother's comfort for the loss of her"); others serve as a reminder that the real problem of life is in having to deal with other people ("You can do as you will with solitude. It does not take you on equal terms"). Some long stretches of these conversations are dull and empty; but pages upon pages of them are superbly funny and brilliantly revealing, until the reader finds reality in all the airy comedy, is ready to agree that "it is voicing things that makes them real...