Word: lively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President] Frank Stanton's attitude toward Person to Person [Nov. 2], and feel inclined to take up the cudgels for Mr. Murrow. I was on this program two years ago. When you state that it is "vaguely" rehearsed, you are right. "Vaguely" is the word. I live in the country; therefore it takes a number of days to cable a house and build various steel towers. I talked some time prior to the program to the writer and director-twice if my memory serves me. Please bear in mind that these gentlemen didn't know me from Adam...
Personally to personally, I had a good time on it; I had a week or more of engineers and such running about the house wiring this and that, including trees, and I am indebted to Mr. Murrow. I live alone; I was not surrounded by friends and family; there was just myself tiptoeing downstairs and hoping to God that things would go right. I hadn't the faintest idea what questions Mr. Murrow would...
Deficit Financing. In Lansing, Mich., police officials shelled out 4? postage due on a letter from Indiana state police, its envelope bearing the legend: "Indiana-where we live within our income...
...spite of the individuality of the Faculty wives, Harvard University is the inescapable social center for most of them. The large majority of the Faculty live in Cambridge, their friends are made within the departments. Even more corporateness is manifested than in a large business organization. It would be unusual to find all IBM employees living in the same neighborhood and to find them all friends. Whatever William Whyte may say of the organization man in business, to some extent this syndrome is ever more6Along with other Faculty wives, Mrs. McGeorge Bundy finds time for varied activities while raising...
...most of Author Berry's exotic, expertly written comic novel, Peter is bivouacked in a native village while scouting his python. The chief's head wife plies him with roast bats, and the chief himself leeringly confides the secret which has enabled him to live (or so he says) for 237 years: "Copulate every day of your life." Most of the book's exuberant humor arises from the collision of Quakers, who (in the words of one of them) regard the body as "needed for the reproduction of Friends," and Hindus, who. Author Berry suggests, recoil...