Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief architect of Lee's defeat was Utah's senior Senator, Arthur V. Watkins, who has feuded with Maverick Lee because of the latter's zany antics in opposing aid for public education, the federal income tax, and the Eisenhower Administration. Watkins denounced Lee as "the most disruptive influence in the whole Republican Party." If Kingmaker Watkins is successful in smoothing the ruffled feathers of Lee's followers by November, Clyde should win handily over Democratic Nominee Lorenzo Clark Romney in nominally Republican Utah...
Please tell Luis Patricio Sullivan of Mexico City [Aug. 27] that the lace-curtain shanty Irish is not an insulting epithet but a whimsey originating among the Irish, repeated among themselves and to non-Irish friends, quoted by the latter-always with quote marks implied by the intonation. Several years ago an Irish friend told me a more recent ver sion, which classified Irish-Americans into "the clean lace-curtain Irish, and the dirty Venetian-blind Irish...
...tests given to all children in fourth grade. Those who scored no or better were given additional IQ tests shortly before they were due to enter sixth grade, assigned to nine special classrooms strategically scattered throughout the school system if they scored 130 or above on the latter tests and proved "socially adjusted." In the special classrooms they were given regular sixth-grade work, beefed up with generous advanced assignments in foreign languages and the sciences...
...warned priests of his diocese to be watchful. Wrote the bishop: "We wish to call special attention to dresses in female sports . . . Modesty must never be sacrificed in sport, nor should sport become a subterfuge for perverse exhibitionism. Bear this in mind when girls are swimming, skating, etc. The latter sport, called artistic and executed in public, we consider absolutely scandalous, rejectable and forbidden if girls do not wear bloomers reaching below their knees . . . Finally, instruct the faithful that nudism in all its forms is the devilish effort of paganism, that the spirit of the Gospel never will be reconciled...
...outline would perhaps suggest a tragedy. Yet Ibsen's title is well chosen, and the play even has a happy ending for everyone. Contrary to the consensus, there was much humor in Ibsen himself and in his plays, though in the latter it resulted more from comic characters than from comic situations. Still, hearty laughter is absent; and disturbing arriere-pensees always lurk in the offing...