Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some churchmen were shocked by the recommendations, but most press comment was favorable. Said the Daily Express: "It acknowledges the freedom of the adult citizen, his good sense and his right to govern his own conduct . . . dispels the notion that gambling in Britain is a dangerous fever or that men starve their children to put cash on the dogs...
...financing and administering of a gigantic rearmament program. Nothing in their past as university dons or trade unionists, as pacifists or Marxists, equips them for this task. It is one of Britain's misfortunes that the Socialists, representing as they do so large a percentage of the governed, should lack enough experienced leaders who are fit to govern. There are able men among them, but as a party they are ignorant of finance, naive about foreign affairs and antagonistic to the military...
...escape clause somewhere in his leader. Among the half dozen or so Conservative M.P.s I lunched with at one time or another, I never heard one talk about what the Tories would accomplish, or indeed sound as if he really believed his party was much fitter to govern than the Socialists. It is principally Winston Churchill, still bitter at his 1945 defeat, who thirsts for office. And he is getting older, growing hard of hearing and remote. A Conservative M.P. told me that he doubts that Churchill regularly speaks to more than 20 members of the House...
This battle of sexes, collision of races and conflict of ideas, this spectacle of a king learning to govern from a governess, is sometimes touching, and far less insipid than the usual musicomedy romance. Gertrude Lawrence plays Anna with bright, at times even glaring, charm, and with the versatility of a governess particularly qualified to teach singing & dancing. Yul Brynner plays the King with scowling magnetism-with a born fierceness of manner that cannot hide his growing moral confusion...
Superintendent Goslin also had a chance to address the committee. Said he: "I have never seen a community in America where the school system was better than its people wanted it to be. What the people want not only should govern, it does in fact govern . . . Here in Pasadena we are going through one of those typically American procedures to find out what we believe in and what we want...