Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million in the next year, presumably more as time goes on. The shrinkage of overseas garrisons would save foreign exchange and help hugely with Britain's wasting balance-of-payments problem. Said Macmillan: "We believe that during recent years this country has been bearing rather more than its fair share of the burden. Seven percent of our working population are engaged in defense. Too many of our scientists and technicians are engaged in complicated tasks of research and development for defense purposes...
...Peace, but it has more narrative pull. It's a great novel! I know I don't look it, but damn it, it is! It's the greatest novel we've had in America! What else have we got? Look Homeward, Angel? O.K. U.S.A.? Fair. Faulkner? The Sound and the Fury is his best, but not all that...
...musical Cinderella played last week to an audience that, even discounting CBS's inflated guess of 107 million, was probably the largest in the history of entertainment. The show did nothing else to make history, though it made 90 minutes pass prettily and smoothly. Sweet-voiced Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews fitted the heroine's role as if it were a glass slipper. The hero of the evening was Composer Richard (Oklahoma!, The King and I) Rodgers, who even imitating Richard Rodgers gives a better imitation than anyone else. At least two songs-Do I Love You Because...
...space of a letter it is impossible to go further into the many ramifications of what is certainly one of the most important trials in American history. I am confident that fair minded people conected with Harvard, whatever their politics, will agree that there is nothing in Dr. Oppenheimer's public record which should bar him from any honor or any appointment which Harvard can confer. I am therefore more concerned lest there be such a reaction to this protest that whatever Dr. Oppenheimer will say in his lectures will be drowned in a tide of sympathy.... Sanford A. Lakoff
...would seem fair to assume that no story or poem in which the reader does not know in some sense "what is happening" will appeal to that reader. Using this critical pretext, I can perhaps explain my intestinal reactions to the March edition of The Advocate, reactions which are on the whole negative...