Word: gibraltarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Luxury-lovers will admit that banking can easily offer as much as any profession in the comfort afforded. Most larger banks, like Prudential, have the strength of Gibraltar, and consequently their employees can be certain of their weekly sustenance. Bankers also have reveled prestige in most American communities and, provided that they work in a reputable establishment, are likely to be in with the "accepted" set of citizens. Especially attractive are hours and conditions...
...Gibraltar. The next day the President himself answered Challenger McCarthy. "I am in full accord with Secretary Dulles," he told newsmen. If the U.S.. he said, "should turn impatiently to coercion of other free nations [it] would be a mark of the imperialist rather than of the leader...
Having scored a direct hit on McCarthy's "foreign policy," Dwight Eisenhower opened fire on the Gibraltar of McCarthy's political arsenal, the suspicion that Communists will continue to hold Government jobs. Said the President: "Fear of Communists' actively undermining our Government will not be an issue in the 1954 elections. Long before then, this Administration "will have made such progress in rooting them out ... that this can no longer be considered a serious menace...
...cocky exaltation of one who can conquer all without ever rising above the commonplace. For Alec Guinness, here cast in the pose of Captain Henry St. James, was a commonplace man--of that you may be assured. He guided the packet Golden Fleece across the Straits of Gibraltar much in the manner of any ferry captain. Yet in a happy moment of inspiration he conceived a plan for deriving the fullest enjoyment out of his most ordinary work...
There is no doubt that St. James' was a clever scheme. The path he plied across the straits and through the narrow streets of Karik brought him a life of double marriage and pleasure. Maud in Gibraltar (pipe, slippers, and dumplings), Nita in Karik (wine, dancing, and midnight swims). He was, as one of his crew noted, a genius. But he was also, and this, too, is duly noted, a saint. If things ended badly, it was not his fault in trying to take too much, but in wanting too little. He wanted only a single full life, and when...