Word: fact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction to his visits. His trip was a success because the American idea is a success; he had once and for all destroyed the myth that anti-Americanism prowls the world. The roaring welcomes defined no new world view of the U.S.; what they did was to dramatize the fact that the world likes an Americanism which day by day works for the quiet processes of emerging democracy and business opportunity (see BUSINESS), and stands up for its principles in actions ranging from the Marshall Plan and Korea, through the Truman Doctrine and U.S. intervention in Lebanon...
...quality of an ancient monument, and perhaps the giant Negro who helped build it is descended from a builder of the Pyramids. His handshake sets the theme for the whole: friendship, love and earned reward. It is a surprisingly happy picture for Koerner, but more important is the fact that in an age when few even try to paint deep space, he has painted it so well as to bring even the most reluctant viewer straight inside the picture. In the foreground, like a sunny signature he has put his own self-portrait with his wife, daughter an grandmother...
...discovered practicing alone on the school's darkened stage while everyone else was out to lunch. That chance encounter eventually got her a part in a TV production of Turgenev's Torrents of Spring. "Look," says Annie as she tries to find some modest explanation for the fact that she worked even during her lunch hours. "I had no money for malteds and no dates. What the hell was there for me to do but stay onstage when the other kids were...
...first, the defendants pleaded not guilty. Since, in case of conviction, the fact could be cited in any civil suits for triple damages, they changed their pleas to nolo contendere and threw themselves on the mercy of the court. While this is equivalent to a guilty plea, the fact could not be used in civil suits, thus lessening the risk that they would be filed. The defendants were also persuaded by the fact that 1) no one had ever received a prison sentence on a nolo contendere plea in antitrust cases, and 2) the Justice Department agreed to recommend only...
...DUTIFUL DAUGHTER, by Simone de Beauvoir. France's existentialist termagant. Jean Paul Sartre's first lady of the Left Bank cafés, is at least as candid as she is philosophically stubborn. Her memoirs of girlhood owe most of their charm to the surprising fact that her origins were Catholic, her upbringing puritan. She describes all this with considerable grace, ends with a conversion to Sartre's atheism which seems from her own testimony to be just another straitjacket, but one she can wear with arrogance...