Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vera Little is a strapping, 27-year-old Memphis girl who went to Europe on a Fulbright fellowship in 1954 to study voice at the Paris Conservatory. While on a concert tour, she dropped into a Hamburg café one day, was spotted by an opera official. "That's exactly the kind of girl wre're looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew...
...were drafting six other recession-inspired bills, calling for increased federal spending for: roads (Gore), housing (Alabama's John Spark-man), hospitals (Alabama's Lister Hill), reclamation (New Mexico's Clinton Anderson), flood control (Oklahoma's Robert Kerr), aid to small business (Arkansas' William Fulbright...
...Democrats left their first full-dress Senate attack on the Eisenhower Administration to Arkansas' J. (for James) William Fulbright, 53, the white knight of Democratic liberals-so white, in fact, that he is politically a segregationist with a record of opposition to last session's civil rights bill and of obdurate silence on Little Rock and his own state's governor, Orval Faubus. With such a background, Rhodes Scholar Fulbright chose an odd subject: education, and the federal education assistance bill before the Senate...
...Arkansan Fulbright cried, is "fat and immobile," apparently forgetting Little Rock's sinewy revolt against the desegregation order of the Supreme Court. And although he did not doubt that the U.S. would meet the challenges of missiles and satellites, he thought that the real solution lay in "a true revival of learning . . . We should reform our basic ideas about elementary and secondary education. We must emphasize the rigorous training of the intellect rather than the gentle cultivation of the personality, which has been so popular in recent years . . . Courses in life adjustment and coed cooking will...
ATHENIAN ADVENTURE, by C. P. (for Clarence Pendleton) Lee (274 pp.; Knopf; $4), shuns the bearded ancient Greeks for the mustached moderns. A onetime professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Author Lee spent a year (1955-56) as a Fulbright professor at the University of Athens. Author Lee has brought home a lot of generalizations-largely accurate-about the Greek character, which form his book's most engaging part. Politeness demands that a Greek be asked three times before he accepts anything. However poor, he never begs, except for cigarettes. No one hawks pictures of the Parthenon...