Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture of satisfaction and dissatisfaction in the Soviet is a changing one, the authors note, and "so are the expectations and aspirations of succeeding generations of Soviet citizens...
...national committee aides. Assistant RFC Loan Manager Frank Prince and Matt Connelly. Other evidence showed that White House Personnel Aide Donald Dawson, one of the subjects of a Senate Committee report (which Harry Truman denounced as "asinine"), had exercised a marvelous influence over RFC. A fascinating note of the investigation: Dawson had spent more than 20 rent-free days in $3O-per-day accommodations in Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel, another RFC borrower. During the course of the investigation, RFC Directors Walter Dunham and William Willett were named as having been unduly influenced by Donald Dawson. Both left...
...Madame Nordica, If Possible." On his 21st birthday J.D.R. Jr. got a gift of $21 from his father, a warm note about "your promise and . . . the confidence your life inspires." But now for the first time in his life J.D.R. Jr. was already beginning to explore the meanings of warmer words than confidence. Awkwardly, at the age of 20, he had learned how to dance. "I made up my mind that I had to conquer my shyness. I had to get a measure of social ease," he wrote home to his mother, who frowned on dancing. He began calling upon...
...Gogh next to sweeping CinemaScopic closeups of his paintings. Actor Kirk Douglas (whose natural red beard makes him look astonishingly like Van Gogh's self-portrait) and Anthony Quinn (splendid as the swaggering Paul Gauguin) at times manage to catch what Van Gogh called "the high yellow note" of painting intensity and the "electric arguments" about art which Van Gogh wrote left them "with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it is discharged." The film captures the fierce drive and bitter tragedy in the life of Van Gogh, who completed more than 800 paintings...
...Betting Odds. Some editorials struck a nonpartisan note. The Chicago Daily News looked over the new federal budget, saw stepped-up spending "in every avenue of welfarism," and wondered "just how the 'new Republicanism' of the Eisenhower Administration differs from the Fair Deal-unless partisanship prompts the conclusion that the Democrats would be spending even more lavishly." New York's Daily Mirror took a dim view of the "strange bipartisan silence" over "the deep resentment among the people against high taxation...