Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mail last week: POWER FIGHT WAGED BY NIXON AND ADAMS. The real situation: Nixon and Adams sometimes disagree as to method but rarely as to purpose. Adams thinks of the executive branch as being able to do what it thinks is right without worrying too much about public opinion; Nixon, as an aide explains, knows that "the people run the country, and if you don't know what the people think, you're in trouble." Nonetheless, Dick Nixon and Sherman Adams have a mutual professional respect, and last week, far from struggling for power, they were working together...
...educational system. "Certainly," said he, "the scientist and the educator must be given more prestige and more pay." Beyond that, said Doolittle, the Defense Secretary needs the services of a new type of general staff, i.e., "an advisory military staff to assist him in resolving the honest differences of opinion that now occur between dedicated military people." Dr. John P. Hagen, director of Project Vanguard, insisted that if the U.S. had treated its own satellite as less of a bauble, had assigned it higher priority, "I think that we probably would have come very close to the same time...
...Algerian people is, therefore, approximately seven Moslems to one European. If any conclusion is to be drawn from these figures, it is that the rebellion does not enjoy spontaneous support from Moslems. The F.L.N. relies more on totalitarian methods than the support it might get from public opinion...
...Neighborhood schools," he adds, "are better than they are given credit for by the Cambridge climate of opinion. There are two ways in which the problem of the school problem can be met. By giving up--moving to Arlington, or by staying to fight. The schools here are good, and they can be tremendously improved through parent-teacher associations and political action...
...French. The implication was clear. Two years later, ostensibly charged with wounding Rimbaud with a pistol during a quarrel, but in effect charged with homosexuality, Verlaine was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at hard labor. Later a Paris court awarded Mathilde a separation decree. These catastrophes, in the opinion of British Biographers Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, proved the making of Verlaine. Stripped of both wife and friend, he went straight to the prison chaplain, asked to be received back into the church. He "happily began to write religious poems" and, on his release from prison, lived for years without...