Word: lacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swiftly confirming Secretary of State Christian Herter, the Senate acted with flawless logic: delay and quibbling might damage Herter's effectiveness as Secretary and thus damage the U.S. too. With a savage lack of the same logic, some Democratic Senators have dawdled with other presidential appointments far beyond the point of legitimate fact-finding-at the risk of damaging the appointee's effectiveness. Classic case: the President's nomination of Lewis Strauss, onetime (1953-58) Atomic Energy Commission chairman, to be Secretary of Commerce...
...most industry (imports are still only 4% of all U.S. manufacturers' sales). But it is a timely warning of the far greater challenge that the U.S. faces abroad. In the early postwar years the U.S. dominated world trade by virtue of its new plants and techniques, and lack of competition. But no longer. Now, thanks to the Marshall Plan and other U.S. aid programs, plus the spending of private business, plants just as efficient as those in the U.S. are turning out goods around the world. Britain's $490 million Abbey steelworks in South Wales is a fully...
Beardsley's subject matter is original and imaginative enough, with its grotesque women, debauched men, cavorting gnomes and malevolent dwarfs, but his technical approach to these appears off-hand, and insufficiently inventive. Though no design in this show is incompetent, most lack the power they might have had if Beardsley had been a little more adventurous and a little less facile. Even the fine Ali Baba, the epitome of gourmanderie, bulging with corpulence, could have used a more radical treatment. As it is, one finds it a very excellent, but conventional, treatment of an extremely unconventional subject...
Princeton, Barnaby says, is "always good and deep" and will be doubly troublesome on their home courts. The Tigers, for the first time in several years, lack a really outstanding star, and "you don't need a man like Dale Junta on your team to lick them at number one." But there is always a problem of adjustment to playing conditions for the visiting team, and, although the varsity did well at Navy and Penn, Princeton will be a good deal stiffer...
...group than with smashing examinations of institutions (Hollywood, the Army) and issues (the H-bomb). Both elements are present in each book, but they were better balanced in the earlier one. And the general absence of people whom Mr. Feiffer can regard with understanding affection is complemented by the lack of individuality of those there are. The small boys in Sick, Sick, Sick, and in some of Mr. Feiffer's subsequent Voice pieces have problems, and sometimes genuine pathos, of their own. Four-year-old Munro, of the second story in the new book, has no personality; his only identity...