Word: men
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the country where any little boy can Grow Up To Be President--even if he's rich. But from all appearances, the job that has in the past been held by such men as Grant, Harding, and Eisenhower will be empty after 1961, because no one wants it. Of course the routine of patriotic reluctance and ultimate submission to an "unwanted" nomination is old and familiar. But we are now asked to witness a display of coquetry unprecedented even in William Jennings Bryan's day: the spectacle of the dozen or so most qualified and ambitious men...
Meanwhile, the Democrats have at least six or eight men who are not running. There is Senator K. from Massachusetts, noticeably more vocal in Congress recently than in the past. Then there are Senator S. from Missouri and Governor B. from California and Governor W. from Michigan and Governor M. from New Jersey, all of whom are very active these days winning friends and denying everything. Senator J. from Texas, who many sophisticated observers say has been President since 1953 anyway, continues to keep everyone in Washington almost happy at the same time, carefully spreading himself wtih intriguing regularity over...
...found a "significant group" whose interest the Departments ought to "engage." While such students "typically aim neither at scholarly study nor at later professional accomplishment in their field of concentration," said the CEP report, Departments can interest them in aspects of their field which "touch them as men and as members of a community...
...comment made on the future of men who may become unemployed because their craftsmanship is no longer needed ? Make-work is not the answer, but surely management has a moral responsibility to assist such employees and place them in other jobs. Advances in technology cannot be stayed, but please observe that a willing worker unemployed cannot buy appliances, automobiles or even magazines...
...Further, men may violently repudiate "prudential reasons" when they are used to support secular ends. The promise that Grace will lead to "an enhancement of happiness, security, status, or the integrated personality," changes "an affirmation as big as life" into "a gimmick as old as Luther's bitter epigram: 'Man seeks himself in everything--even...