Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political pot was bubbling briskly in the House, and the aroma of a rich fiscal stew flared jaded old nostrils on both sides of the aisle. The basic ingredient was the Administration's record peacetime $71.8 billion budget, which is, in many domestic respects, a Fair Dealer's dream, e.g., burgeoning appropriations for agriculture, expenses for school construction, outlays for welfare projects. Old-fashioned Republicans criticized it as a Fair Deal budget, but the President left it up to the Democrat-controlled Congress to trim as it might. Entering into the spirit of the thing, House Democrats made...
...grads of Harvard, both distinguished in the world of music, popped up with pooled talents as the creators of two new songs for their alma mater. Musicomedy Librettist Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner ('40) and Master-of-Most-Musical-Trades Leonard Bernstein ('39) had cooked up a lugubrious ("Harvard! Harvard! Onward go . . .") Dedication and a satirical, possibly soulful, ditty titled The Lonely Men of Harvard. Excerpt from the latter...
...Fair Lady. "There's so little time to learn my lines," she explained. "I think about them while waiting for cues in Lady...
...publicity chairman, Wagnon is glad to work in other posts for service and civic groups. "I believe," he argues, "that only by working with people, can [an editor] obtain that intimate, firsthand knowledge that makes for accurate reporting, and editorial comment and criticism that is easy, natural and fair." Wagnon admits that the community-conscious reporter gets his sympathies involved with his projects, but concludes: "But you become a first-class citizen instead of a second-class citizen who leaves the work to George...
...accompany her on a little "trip." She is seduced by a high-ranking Fascist official who loves her but is married. Overcome, with guilt, she shortly finds out that her supposed fiance is likewise married and in mixed guilt and rage, takes the easiest course. At length our fair heroine falls in love with a customer, a well-educated anti-Fascist and she is to bear him a child. This affair ends in bleak and bloody despair. She wanders off into the darkness, saying that she will devote her life to her child, a sort of circular statement connecting with...