Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gurion's shadow. He was the only military aide the old man ever had-a gentle, universally loved man who himself loved only his chief. Unmarried, he lived only for Ben-Gurion, issued orders in his name that Cabinet officers accepted unquestioningly. "There are only two people who matter in the state-Ben-Gurion and me," he said, not in arrogance, but in devotion so great that it amounted to identification. One day last fortnight, as he drove into Jerusalem, a wasp flew in the window of Argov's car and stung him on the eyelid. Argov lost...
...University of Kansas to the University of Texas, more concerts are given, more students attend, and when the campus string quartet is not in session, one simply switches on the hifi. But in general, the thing to be, on the subject of art-or on any subject, for that matter-is casual. "Anything that is in any way heroic or looks heroic," says Philosophy Major Peter Gunter of the University of Texas, "thumbs down. Don't ever stand up and pound your fist about anything, because that is sort of childish...
Within minutes, the sewer tax was down the drain, and D'Alesandro had his inspiration. Why not tax the bothersome Sunpapers and Baltimore's TV stations on their ad revenues? For that matter, why not tax the advertisers themselves? Last week D'Alesandro finally introduced his bill to raise $4,200,000 by hitting advertisers with a tax of 7½% on their outlays, soaking newspapers, radio and TV stations 2% of their ad revenues...
...Round Table, riding high on an eleven-straight winning string; and the controversial colt, Gallant Man, who lost the Derby by a dirty nose. Between them they had already earned nearly $1,500,000; now they were after a piddling $82,350. But the money didn't matter. The winner of last week's race at New Jersey's Garden State track would be America's Horse of the Year...
...time, she became not Sterling's but Upton Sinclair's goddess. After a messy divorce from his first wife, Sinclair married his belle in 1913. Mary Sinclair still regards it as a matter for wonder that a granddaughter of the Confederacy should have latched onto a radical like Upton. In this wonder lies the secret of the book's charm. She never seems to realize that the romanticism of early Socialism and that of the Old South were akin. However different the windmills they were tilting at, both Mary and Upton were American romantics. Besides, most social...