Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Continuous Improvement. In this harness, said the President, U.S. policy will not be based on the philosophy of preparing for war by,any certain year of maximum exposure, "but will be based on the sounder theory that a very real danger not only exists this year but may continue to exist for years to come; that our strength, which is already very real, must now be made stronger, not by inefficient and expensive starts and stops, but by steady, continuous improvement." Under this "new, fresh" policy, the "old misleading labels" would be changed, the "paper divisions and cardboard wings" disregarded...
...appalling to me that someone, because be was a disappointed applicant, should drag in an issue that does not exist. My close associations and friendships with so many people of every race, creed and color is, to me, a complete answer to this unfounded and unsigned letter. Samuel P. Sears...
Manhattan gallery-goers flocked to the show, and Marcel Duchamp thought they took it quite well. "Dada is not passe," he insisted. "The Dada spirit is eternal. Our art will always exist as a concrete expression of freedom." And he could feel that the visitors "understood immediately." Understanding or not, most people had trouble deciding if it was safe to pick up Duchamp's catalogue for the show. Duchamp had them printed on huge ( 2 ft. by 3 ft.) sheets of tissue, crumpled them into balls and packed them in a wastebasket. People with long memories half expected that...
When toastmaster Michael J. Neville, a former May-of or Cambridge, Started the introductions, Carr Joined a trickle of "personal friends" heading for the exist. My friend explained that a professional politician has go to hundreds of similar affairs. When Kennedy was running last fall, he said, sometimes he went to five a day. A Mr. O'Rourke, across the table, said that the Republicans were very poor at banquet throwing. A man got a judgeship a few months ago and they couldn't get 500 out at $5 a plate...
...ideas that lurk behind headlines crying problem, red hunt. It deals with the gnosis of lost causes exhumed to terrorize and destroy men who cheated for them "in another time and in another country." Most of all, it is a play about a certain general who never existed and who, I doubt, could ever exist. In "Billy Budd" Robert chapman and Louis Coxe created a personification of good, and no one questioned whether or not he ever walked the face of this earth, because it didn't matter. "Billy Budd" was too much a parable, and its setting in another...