Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, he set out to discover America. For a year he edited scholarly tracts for the New York Academy of Sciences, then went west to review books for the San Francisco Argonaut, a weekly magazine of opinion. By 1952, he was a reporter and columnist for the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, and a part-time correspondent for TIME. Two years later he returned east to work first for LIFE, then for TIME. As a TIME Business writer, he has done two other cover stories, Toymaker Louis Marx (TIME. Dec. 12) and American Express' President Reed (TIME, April 9), plus...
...Parliament Nehru resembles nothing so much as a crotchety schoolmaster leading a class discussion. He constantly pops up to interrupt, discourses firmly on everything from the evils of too many cocktail parties to what kind of clothing M.P.s should wear. Often these casual expressions of personal opinion determine national policies. One such statement resulted in the banning in India of films that show Africans in a "degrading light,"' e.g., as bearers on safari. Another killed a widely supported proposal to put a $5,000 ceiling on personal income in India...
...opinion given by Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government at Harvard, tended away from the position held by Hartz and Kohn. Beer, who personally "abhors" the idea of being governed by Nixon if he should succeed to the presidency, believed that a ticket with Nixon would be a balanced...
...think, set an example which is felt throughout the world, and that tends to stimulate these processes. They would not be irresistible, in my opinion, if it were not for the fact that there is this constant demonstration going on as to how good freedom is. It is a conduct and example which catches the imagination of people, and that is why people throughout the world are constantly striving to get more freedom and more liberty...
...tobacco there is a difference of opinion: Cowdry okays a little; Kountz rules it out entirely...