Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from out of his shadow. With Adenauer in the Presidential office, perhaps the Socialists can gain some strength as an opposition party. To a large extent Russian policy will determine German politics, and in light of Soviet intransigence on free elections for unification, the Socialists are hard pressed to find responsible alternatives to Adenauer's strong Western commitments. An effective opposition is important, however, in teaching the arts of representative government...
...question of art, the phenomenon is sad enough. The drabbest epitaph of all is that the show is generally an unrelieved bore. The psychological implications, however, are more unhappy still. This all helps a great deal to understand why an advanced people of intellectual attainment have been known to find themselves hysterically shrieking Sieg Heil! to an enraged psychotic with delusions of grandeur...
What will the U.S. find just over the next economic hill? Last week, in the fourth of a series of FORTUNE articles on the course of the economy, the U.S. public got an idea of the prosperity it can expect in the decade ahead. "From 1965 on," said FORTUNE, "the U.S. should enter a new age of abundance that will make even the great days of the 1950s look a little austere...
...learned how profitable it can be to sign up for one of their undertakings, the partners are a little apprehensive about the current fervor for low-priced glamour stocks. "These days," says Towbin, "anybody with a soldering iron and a piece of wire calls himself an electronics company. We find only one or maybe two really good companies a year...
...tall, worn, woebegone. He stammers foolishly when he tries to speak, often does not hear what is said to him. A creased, dirty raincoat is his unvarying costume; he wanders abstractedly, clutching a camera and a sackful of pointless documents. Says a woman, exasperated to find herself in love with him: "What do you think you are, a saint?" That is precisely the point about Antoine Montés: he is a scarecrow and a chronic victim, but he is also a kind of saint-a holy fool...