Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Taste...
...discovery, the Manchester Guardian reported the existence in England of something called the Conversing Travelers' Association. The Guardian triumphantly uncovered "what appear to be two facts about the association: it was formed at Letchworth in 1950, and it now has about 1,000 members indulging, as a matter of principle, in 'topical conversation with strangers of either sex to relieve boredom when traveling.' The association badge, with a copy of the rule book, costs five shillings a year. Once the badge-silver lettering on a blue background-is recognized, members are at liberty to start talking...
...government will begin by parceling out its own vast holdings, most of it uncleared jungle, and will tax untilled estates so heavily that owners will be encouraged to sell. As a last resort the government will expropriate, but estates under proper cultivation will not be taken over, no matter what their size. "The law is neither leftist nor rightist," says Agriculture Minister Victor Jimenez Landinez. "It is simply just...
Over their port and cigars in London, parliamentarians and barristers were impressed by the efficiency and economy of the ombudsman system. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan promised to give the matter "careful" study. Labor's Hugh Gaitskell concurred. But other M.P.s were quick to point out that the ombudsman system would cut across the primary sources of parliamentary authority and power. They thought that what would work in the more placid arena of Scandinavia, with its tradition of dispassionate counselors such as Dag Hammarskjold. would not do so well in the bigger and more contentious British setting...
Most of the movie is grounded in muddled mythology; the scriptwriter seems to get Hercules mixed up with Samson, the Amazons with the ladies of Lemnos. But no matter. Few Amazons ever looked better, especially in a scene filmed against the background of an obviously modern cemetery, where one of the big, tough gals explains that this is where visiting men are buried "when we kill them after the mating season." The good guys fight the bad; Hercules topples pillars on horses and men, breaks iron chains as if they were Zippers and routs an army singlehanded. "If this picture...