Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last May a three-judge federal panel upheld the Alabama law on the ground that none of the 17 qualifications were, in and of themselves, unconstitutional unless proved, by evidence submitted to the courts, to be administered so as to exclude Negroes from white schools. "In some future proceeding," warned the lower court, "[the law] may be declared unconstitutional in its applications." That, in sum, was the judgment that the Supreme Court sustained last week...
This discursive method of arriving at editorial policy produces editorials that are the height of discursiveness. On many issues, Cowles editorials give sober consideration to a variety of viewpoints-and often end up advocating none. Cracks one rival Iowa editor: "They're like a butterfly in heat." Mike Cowles thinks that other papers are doing the fluttering: on foreign policy, he says, "most papers in this country have become eunuchs...
...Irish play?"). Pleadingly, she tried to sell Tennessee Williams' forthcoming Sweet Bird of Youth: "No, I really don't think Williams is so morbid. A bit sexy, maybe. And it's got Paul Newman. Wouldn't you like an early night?" The charity man wanted none of it, leaving one night less on Broadway for Tennessee Williams...
...Trans World Airlines' big Kansas City overhaul center and its other bases around the U.S. last week, 7,000 members of the International Association of Machinists marched out on strike. No planes would be serviced, none overhauled. The nation's fourth biggest line had no choice but to shut down. T.W.A.'s 196 daily flights, carrying 12,000 passengers across the U.S. and to 23 foreign cities, flew on to their destinations. Then the big Super Connies and twin-engined Martins were grounded, and the line locked up shop...
...sightless, slanting eyes. They were men and women molded to a very private vision of how humans ought to look, a vision that only Modigliani's power as a designer could put across and make seem beautiful. All his control was reserved for art; in life he had none...