Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fact was very much in the President's mind as he fended off demands for reckless action to halt the downturn by any means, at any cost. Labor, business, state and local governments, all were calling for action from Washington, and doing very little on their own to help fight the recession. Symbolizing the panic pressures, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and other top labor leaders handed the President a damn-the-deficits plan that included just about everything except an offer to join with management in a hold-down on wages...
...CAROLINA ON YOUR MIND? cried the headline in the Tory Daily Mail...
...Liberal Party tentatively tossed one well-known Homburg in the ring. The boomed candidate: TV's furrow-browed Edward Roscoe (See It Now) Murrow. Gruffed Murrow: "I have neither the intention nor the appetite to run for elective office," would not deny that more persuasion might change his mind. Added Murrow's good friend, New York Governor Averell Harriman (who has approved former Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter): "It would be an interesting thing...
...overpraised. Now a small reaction has set in, led by Dwight Macdonald, who in Commentary denounced Cozzens as a tool of the "Middlebrow Counter-Revolution.'' With much justice, Critic Macdonald ridicules the involved Cozzens style. With far less justice, he maintains-in a dubious bit of critical mind reading-that Hero Winner is not really the character Cozzens had meant to create; he is a prig, where Cozzens wanted to create an ideal man. In fact, Arthur Winner, like most men, is a mixed character-part righteous man, part self-righteous-and as such he will long continue...
...born Louise (hence, from a childish lisp. Ouida) Rame, in Bury St. Edmunds. Her father, a mysterious Frenchman, may or may not have been a spy for Louis Napoleon. As she grew up, she displayed a tough mind and an absurd imagination-something between Racine and Edward Lear, says Biographer Stirling. When she insisted on behaving like her own fictional characters (e.g., flinging an ivory cigar case from her opera box at the feet of an Italian tenor), it became clear that England was not for her nor she for England...