Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Menshikov was warned in a nice way by Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, now busy with Middle East matters, that he was specifically violating diplomatic procedure by sending Soviet propaganda to members of Congress and key Government agencies, e.g., Vice President Nixon, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, California Democratic Representative Jimmy Roosevelt, without channeling it through the State Department as required. Menshikov smilingly promised to look into the matter, did nothing. Last week the State Department let it be known that the U.S.'s final recourse in such a matter might be to declare such...
...General. The loss of so-called absolutes is not the problem. "It is rather the disappearance of trust in the proposition that the mind and conscience are capable of making any genuine discriminations at all." Nor, as Dr. Miller sees it, is anti-intellectualism at the heart of the matter. "It is not that we do not have enough respect for other people called intellectuals; it is that we do not have enough respect for our own intellects...
...Arthur Cohen, a Jew and publisher of Meridian Books Inc. Both agree that (as Cohen puts it) religion in the U.S. is apt to be "ineffective," victimized by "internal confusion and disorder," generally "deteriorating," and that (in Clancy's words) religion is apt to be a matter of good fellowship and good works, with the American "consensus" on moral and philosophic principles growing ever narrovver...
...open," said a trade paper ad (subject to other interpretations) by 20th Century-Fox that called attention to $472,000 worth of wide-screen science, filmed in "terror-color," concerning a fellow who has learned how to decompose and recompose matter electronically. Soon he has accidentally concocted two creatures consisting of parts of himself and parts of a horsefly. Fox, now that its Fly is open, offers a careful "$100 to the first person who can prove it can't happen...
...limbo." Says he: "The change in conditions in English life has made it rather difficult for my kind of writing. Comedy does so depend on prosperity." Once a professional drama critic (for Vanity Fair), in recent years he has habitually left any play after the first act, no matter how good or bad. Rather sadly he recalls that England was once full of the dotty people he wrote about. "But I suppose a couple of wars have made the English more earnest. Yet there are still, I think, people who behave oddly. The Duke of Kent is always behaving like...