Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with sense enough to view this so-called "battle" with an open mind. I am a Catholic, and I know that if I were to vote for a presidential candidate, his religious affiliation would not in the least affect my vote. I believe, and I am quite sure my opinion must be shared by many, that a man's political shrewdness is a thing that is governed by his own knowledge and education, and if this person is capable of doing his job, he will do it regardless of his religious beliefs...
...clearer, at this point, about what they are not than about what they are, some are giving deep thought to the future. A chorus of liberal ayes greeted Columnist Walter Lippmann's recent definition of the mission of the Democratic Congress: "It would be to prepare public opinion for the future, which is not yet here but is near at hand. It would be to prepare public opinion for the decade of the '60s, which, assuming that there is no war, is bound to be an era of great innovation and development of our public activities...
...early editions of the Times for the morning after Castro resigned last week, Matthews speculated that the move came not from troubles within Cuba but out of resentment of U.S. criticism: "One must suppose that he has foreign policy and U.S. opinion mostly in mind. The attacks on him in the U.S. have wounded and angered him." But when Castro himself said that his resignation stemmed from his feud with the President of his own choosing, Manuel Urrutia Lleo (see THE HEMISPHERE), and that a lot of the trouble arose because Urrutia had spoken unkindly of the Communists, the Times...
...Russians. But when Ollenhauer went hat in hand to Khrushchev in Berlin, he found the Soviet leader frankly contemptuous of the Socialists' offer of German withdrawal from NATO. After that humiliating meeting, Socialist popularity fell. Instead of gaining from the Adenauer-Erhard bickering, the Socialist standing in public opinion polls has plummeted from 32% to 26%. When Ollenhauer bowed out last week, the leftists also took a beating...
...Detroit Free Press, and turned down several himself after close examination. A newcomer to newspapering, Whitney had never heard of Mexico's Bob White, but, as one Whitney aide explains, "nearly everyone we spoke to mentioned his name; so we got in touch with him." Asked for an opinion. Chicago's Marshall Field Jr.-for whose Sun-Times White had served as a part-time consultant (1956-58)-offered a blue-chip recommendation. Five weeks ago White flew to London, met Ambassador Whitney. Says Horace Greeley's successor: "I told him, 'Come East, young...