Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had Dwight Eisenhower and his Administration given the people of the U.S. that brought their overwhelming approval? The Republican campaign slogan summed it up well : peace, progress and prosperity. The Eisenhower Administration had ended one hopeless war and had kept the sparks of new wars from landin on the U.S. Under new economic policies, the U.S. had reached new heights of prosperity for both labor and capital. The Administration had balanced the federal budget, and cut taxes, and had shown proper concern for the welfare of its citizens, e.g., in the broadening of social security, in programs for better...
Ever since the primaries, Stevenson has been the victim of TIME'S oozy cattiness, its perennial substitute for straight reporting. Depicted as a hopeless bundle of personal defects, Adlai lies beneath the heel of your caricature and Yale's vegetable-throwing fresh men. A plague upon you - whatever happens...
...incredibly smelly situation. And the United Nations at this point seems an instrument through which suddenly for the first time the United States and Russia can work together. Because of the momentarily transformed relations between Russia and the United States which this crisis has wrought, things are not as hopeless as they might have been. An excellent opportunity presents itself to remold world alignments, to inject an element of mutual confidence into world diplomacy, and to strengthen the United Nations. Poland and Hungary have shown that bipolar conception of contemporary world history no longer fits the facts. Russian support...
...play has little action; it merely follows the four through one day in their lives and, in a series of conversations, lets then reveal to each other and to the audience just how wretched and hopeless they are. But as they continually scratch each other raw then draw back to apologize, the main thing that becomes clear is that none of them is really responsible for his actions. The father's miserliness is the result of an incredibly impoverished childhood, the mother's dope addiction is due to the stupidity of a quack doctor, and the sons' faults are blamed...
...terms that Stevenson, had he been in the White House, would probably have been forced to reject in order to prove to the country that he was a loyal American. The President calmed down the country when the Chinese shot at airplanes, and he kept us out of a hopeless war in Indo-China when his own Vice-President was urging action. And most important, the President went to Geneva, where he became chummy with the Soviets and apparently convinced them that neither the East nor the West could afford to bear the guilt of starting the Third, and last...