Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Student Council at Harvard College is nothing more than a band of low, cheap, conniving pirates totally unprincipled in its savagery of extortion, a tight cliche (sic) which, after carefully replacing the windows in its office with mirrors, spends many pleasurable hours looking out and formulating student opinion. (formulating is really too strong a word to be used here as it implies a thinking process...
...damage caused by the bitter Taft-Eisenhower fight in 1952, which alienated some of the G.O.P.'s best-heeled backers. Today Feikens is constantly prodding businessmen to get into the campaign more deeply. "Corporate lawyers won't let companies stick their necks out," he complains bitterly. "Most opinion leaders in Michigan communities are Republicans, and when they say that the C.I.O. still controls the state, somebody's falling down on the job pretty badly. Why can't these Republicans be leaders in politics like they are in their businesses and professions...
...great energies ... if they continue to find their salvation and security exclusively through the patronage of the United States . . . What are vital necessities for the European countries do not always have to be vital necessities for the U.S., and vice versa; from this fact may result differences of political opinion which may lead to independent political action...
...Professional experts argue whether drastic brain surgery (such as lobotomy) is justified in severe mental illness. Two British psychiatrists decided to ask the patients themselves and their relatives. Of 103 patients, 66 were glad to have had the operation, 23 had no opinion, eleven regretted it, and three thought it a great mistake. Among 93 relatives reached, 72 rated the patient better off, ten un changed, eleven thought him worse...
...sounded his defiance most sharply in answering F. Scott Fitzgerald's advice to write more like Gustave (Madame Bovary) Flaubert, who "has consciously left out the stuff that Bill or Joe ... will come along and say presently." Snarled Wolfe: "Just remember that although Madame Bovary in your opinion may be a great book, Tristam Shandy is indubitably a great book because it boils and pours ... A great writer is not only a leaver-outer but also a putter-inner, and Shakespeare and Cervantes and Dostoievsky were great putter-inners and will be remembered for what they...