Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaw's proverbial wit is abundantly manifest. At one point the self-styled "greatest living master of letters" exclaims, "All I ask is to have my own way in everything." And after an ovation at a play, he said, "My impulse was to rise and bless them. I often feel like the Pope...
...Americans feel that your stupendous road-building program should include the erection of a monument to Henry Ford, who started the mass production of automobiles that revolutionized the American way of life, making the superhighways a necessity...
...larger questions of war and peace, Congressmen still seem to hold Dwight Eisenhower, and his foreign-policy successes, in awe. But where they were cautious about opposing him during the first Administration, they now feel cocky in the belief that his preoccupation with international affairs and deep respect for Congress' independent role leave them free to cut Administration domestic programs as they see fit. Ike's ballooning sentences at press conferences, his occasional vaguenesses on the specifics of current Administration policy, e.g., disarmament, China trade policy, civil rights, give the President's foes new cheek...
...George Bernard Shaw. Some excerpts: "Granted that I am a buffoon-one whose profession is to bribe people to listen to me by literary antics such as silly tales of lovemaking and so forth. But has anyone been more serious with you than I? If you have made me feel, have I not made you think?" "Write to me, and I will make love to you-to relieve the enormous solitude which I carry about with me. I do not like myself, and sometimes I do not like you; but there are moments when our two unfortunate souls seem...
...Director Anthony Mann tells a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity that makes every theater seat feel like a foxhole; with Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray (TIME, April...