Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," sounds as if it had been written by Styles Bridges and approved by William Jenner and Joseph McCarthy. TIME, it seems, would rather have a candidate already selected before the convention, thereby ignoring the vast selection of numerous other hopefuls who in my opinion would be at least 10% stronger politically than the present Vice President. If not Chris Herter, why not Governor Craig of Indiana...
Commenting on the questionnaires yesterday, Robert C. Wood, associate director of the Summer School, observed that it was from such expressions of "public opinion" as this that the decision to keep Lamont Library open weekends next summer was taken. He urged as many students as possible to fill out the polls...
...made a brave try at mediating between them during the Boston Tea Party, was almost mobbed for his pains. His thoughts turned to the home country he had never seen and the greater glory to be gained there. On the eve of the Revolution, Copley (who hewed to the opinion that political contests are "neither pleasing to an artist or advantageous to the art itself") set sail for England. He left behind a gallery of American portraits destined to live, amaze and inspire as long as paint holds to canvas...
...civil rights which is obnoxious to the members from the South . . . I do not believe the American people can permanently postpone dealing with this issue. But the members of the Senate who are in this quiet and at times pleasant club cannot hope to escape the scrutiny of public opinion, not only of this country, but of the world...
...Democratic Representative Francis Walter. One reason why the Committee of One Million may achieve its goal: when the U.S. Senate last week adopted, 86 to 0, a House-approved (391-0) resolution against the admittance of Red China to the U.N., it was only reflecting over whelming U.S. opinion. Thus, the twin planks proposed by the Committee of One Million would be the best and wisest sort of politics for both parties...