Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Storm Signals. Everywhere, the cry was for more "young blood" and "progressive leadership." But most Republicans, like National G.O.P. Chairman Hugh Scott Jr., had only half-learned the lesson of 1948. Diagnosing the election, Scott declared: "The public has accepted the intervention of government in its daily life . . . Ours is...
Lithe, svelte Fawzia, considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, was every bit as Westernized as her friend Farida. She never learned to like her new home. Mohamed Reza Pahlevi built her a palace in Teheran and cast off two mistresses to show his devotion, but it...
Life on the Dole. Twenty-five years ago, as a young poet in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Muñoz had described himself as "God's pamphleteer, [going] with the mobs of hungry men & women towards the great awakening." His relation with his island's straw-hatted...
Not since the Madison (Wis.) Democrat died in 1920 had the state capital boasted a morning newspaper of its own. But for 30 years, two papers had battled it out in the afternoon field. Last week Madison (pop. 67,500) learned, with mixed feelings, that it would get a morning...
Hence it was not a complete surprise to William Polk when he learned, as he describes it, that Ernest K. Lindley, head of Newsweek's Washington Bureau, had suggested to newsmen that Polk not be permitted to go to Greece.