Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, paid his first state visit to Washington last week. Actually, despite his striped pants, stiff collar and courtly manners, he was just like an old friend dropping in for a chat. There was no state dinner: Good Neighbor St. Laurent was entertained at a stag luncheon in Blair House with 14 other guests-mostly top-drawer U.S. officials...
Radcliffe's newest dorm will be slightly smaller than its next-door neighbor, Cabot Hall, and will square off the Annex Quadrangle across the tennis court...
...Park, Ill. was accidentally locked out of her house in freezing weather, hammered unavailingly for readmittance. Her father-in-law, a radio amateur, had his earphones clamped on tight, and was too busy talking with a ham in Johannesburg, South Africa to hear her. She stepped to a neighbor's house, telephoned another ham, had him contact Station Z56KD in Johannesburg, which notified her father-in-law that she wanted to get back inside...
...away again for a rest. And he had pulled out some new ones, like the Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Medtner works that had Manhattan concertgoers holding their breath last week. He had also found plenty of time to play chamber music with his good friend and neighbor, Artur Rubinstein, and with Vladimir Horowitz when he dropped in-not to mention an occasional jam session, with Heifetz rolling out such items as Gut-Bucket Gus and Jim Jives on the piano. As for his popular composing (When You Make Love to Me-TIME, Oct. 21, 1946), Heifetz grins: "I've divorced...
...what a kolkhoz is, but, he said: "Whatever it is, it is nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...