Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that some of the external plushery was intentionally put in for an ironic contrast with the agonized struggle between Hamlet and Claudius. But the struggle never seems really agonized, and much of the plushery simply gets in the way. Gordon Jacob's music, for instance, is too much and too pretty--it was not a good idea to use a harp in the ghost music. The Play Scene, for another instance, ends in a very ecstasy of lighting and musical effects which succeed in diverting attention from what is actually going on: you can't see the forest...
...session's outset, they move that the Senate adopt rules for the 1959 session, as it would plainly have to do if it were not a continuing body. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey and Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas last week presented a brief to the Senate's presiding officer, Vice President Richard Nixon, making the liberal case that the Senate is not a continuing body. Basis of their argument: The Constitution provides that "each House may determine...
...Senate's G.O.P. leader to run for Governor of California, the handful of Eisenhower Republicans started talking about a real chance to take over. By last August the insurgent planning revolved around Vermont's George Aiken, New Jersey's Clifford Case and New York's Jacob Javits. After such Old Guard Republicans as Nevada's George Malone, Ohio's John Bricker-and Bill Knowland himself-got soundly whipped in the November elections, Aiken & Co. felt sure that they were on the right track. At first they had demanded only that one of their number...
Inevitable Changed? To assure victory, liberal leaders already are mustering their troops. Last week Republicans Jacob Javits of New York and Clifford Case of New Jersey were hard at work rounding up G.O.P. votes for the rules change. And from Democrats Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Paul Douglas of Illinois went a joint letter to 13 newly elected Democratic Senators. Rule XXII, said the letter, deprives newcomers of "the right to participate in making the rules under which they must operate." Damning the possible party consequences, the letter added: "No plea for an illusory 'party unity' which surrenders...
...Johntz, Jr. of Kirkland House and Mission, Kan.; Isaac Kramnick of Winthrop House and Millis, Mass.; David F. Ogden of Dudley House and Cambridge; Charles L. Perrin of Leverett House and Pittsburgh; David B. Sachar of Leverett House and Newtonville; Peter H. Stone of Lowell House and Brooklyn, and Jacob H. Tulchin of Lowell House and New York City...