Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn head what appears to be a serene Democratic household, sitting by comfortably while the Republicans spat. But west of the Potomac, Democrats are becoming the party of bitterness, much of it directed squarely at the congressional leadership's budget feud with Eisenhower. For a fresh political survey, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Democratic Split...
...splashed monotonously on the broad, glossy leaves of the eucalyptus trees that screen the chocolate-colored walls of Al Zuhour palace from public view. Al Zu-hour palace is the birthplace of Iraq's 22-year-old Hashemite King Feisal, whose line has waged a blood feud intermittently for over half a century with the usurping Sauds of Arabia. But last week, for seven busy and significant days, the palace served as a royal guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
...Submerge a Feud. Later this month King Saud will visit Baghdad to see Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...
...being swept away by Arab nationalist extremists, and made his preparations. He journeyed down to Medina to see Saudi Arabia's King Saud, just before Saud left for his trip to the U.S. Saud, whose fear of Communist penetration of the Middle East far outweighs his old feud with Hussein's Hashemite clan, promised full though secret backing...
Wagner's book covers the various fields of Lewis' attacks with scholarly care. Lewis' distaste for democracy ("a democracy necessarily is a corrupt and disorderly type of government") and his sporadic enthusiasms for fascism are well discussed, as are his quarrel with the cubist school of painting, his feud with Joyce, and his vigorous anti-Bergsonism. His own books are also discussed in considerable detail...