Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barnett's first acts as Governor will be a conference with his particular hero, Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus and like-minded Southern segregationists. "I am going to put forth every effort,'' he promised, "to organize Southern Governors to create and crystallize public opinion throughout the nation with reference to our traditions and Southern way of life." Crowed State Democratic Chairman Bidwell Adam after the election: "I want to say I'm thankful to God that Ross Barnett has saved Mississippi...
Unlike Nikita Khrushchev's Russia, the U.S. could thrive on its differences of opinion-and the fact of Khrushchev's visit itself brought on such differences. Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing denounced all Russians as spies, urged Catholics to recite the rosary and pray during Khrushchev's twelve-day visit. The leaders of Congress hastily moved toward adjournment so they could avoid the necessity of asking Khrushchev to address a joint session...
Epstein reacted to criticism like a maddened elephant, but never let the struggle affect his art. "The man in the street," he would say, thrusting out his low er lip like a rain spout, "is a fool. And I care not a whit for his opinions." Asked his opinion of other sculptors, the big man in the long-billed baseball cap would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort...
...accepted international practice, and the U.S. (having in the Monroe Doctrine forbidden Europe from intervening in the Western Hemisphere) used the doctrine at San Juan Hill, on the Isthmus of Panama, and in several other Caribbean countries where U.S. property and business were threatened. Then, bowing to Latin American opinion and cries of "dollar diplomacy," the U.S., under Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt, abandoned intervention, first in practice (the troops were withdrawn from three countries) and then in principle (the U.S. signed the 1936 nonintervention agreement of Buenos Aires). Today the principle of nonintervention, far more than a weapon against...
...most fascinating and amusing section of his book. The Parisian wits skewered each other like shish kebab. At Mme. Aubernon's (a fat, lively little woman and the chief model for Mme. Verdurin in Remembrance), the subject for conversation was announced days in advance. "What is your opinion of adultery?" she asked Mme. Straus (a Duchesse de Guermantes model) when that was the theme. Mme. Straus replied, "I'm so sorry; I prepared incest by mistake...