Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MILWAUKEE JOURNAL: EISENHOWER, elected as the great leader, has failed to lead...
...Gene McCarthy, onetime St. John's University economics professor and ten-year Congressman, was 1) a Catholic, and 2) an all-too-arch egghead type from St. Paul who might just get massacred by Ed Thye in the farm counties. The D.F.L. decided that folksy Governor Freeman, a lead-pipe cinch for reelection, would give up some of his anticipated 200,000 majority to concentrate on working for Gene McCarthy in what Master Planner Humphrey called "a unified campaign." Specifically theD.FL.: ¶ Ignored the political rule that candidates traveling and handshaking separately get more crowd exposure, sent Freeman and/or...
...Wisconsin (5-1-1)-took an early lead, still held on to beat Northwestern...
...pregnant and more intellectual than ever. Marilyn stayed coolly sealed inside the mental isolation booth that Manhattan Methodman Lee Strasberg prescribed for "getting into" a part (hers: a uke-playing songbird of the '20s). Marilyn ordered gawkers kicked off the set, banned cussing crewmen, played love scenes with Leading Man Tony Curtis as if enclosed in a cake of ice. It was tough on Curtis, a simpler type who can still exclaim: "Gee, Marilyn Monroe makin' love to me!" Marilyn also huffily rebuffed Producer-Director Billy Wilder's smallest advice ("You'll make me forget...
...first rank, a writer in the great tradition . . . Lolita is probably the best fiction to come out of this country . . . since Faulkner's burst in the '30s. [Nabokov] may be the most important writer now going in this country." But later, the New Republic used a lead editorial to call Lolita an "obscene chronicle of murder and a child's destruction," somberly explained "what obliges us to differ with our own reviewer." It is "the real Lolitas who exist in darkness throughout their lives," ignored by book critics but "known to social workers and mental institutions...