Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essays first appeared under the elastic title, Our Country and Our Culture, in three issues of the Partisan Review last year. More apt, the new title recognizes the two foci of the symposium: the state of American society, facing the threats of mass culture and a pressure for conformity; and the dilemma of the American intellectual, seeking a place for himself in a cultural context he can no longer flee...
...clock forward. Many of the most pressing domestic problems, such as our decaying metropolitan housing, and lack of doctors and low-income medical care, were either ignored in his speech, or hustled off to "commissions for further study." Yet previous study, especially that of Mr. Truman's non-partisan commission on the Health Needs of the Nation, has shown that federal action in these field cannot wait. Since these problems find time an ally, stubborn adherence to present programs, without forward-looking improvements, does indeed turn back the clock for the future. Countries such as England and Scotland now regret...
...good-looking bachelor with craggy features and a voice like the Great Gilder-sleeve, Miles is a model extrovert. His personality and opinions are as open to public consumption as his sherry bottle. He is a staunch partisan of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Democratic Party, slipping the first into his Gov. 1 sections, and defending the second against all comers in the dining hall. He is a keen critic of clothes, even unto distinguishing between products of the second and third floor of Brooks Brothers...
...down because of its fear of creating a U.S. equivalent to the German general staff: creation of a combined staff, composed of senior officers who have moved up from Chief of Staff, are accountable only to the President and Defense Secretary, and who are all supposedly beyond range of partisan-service ambitions...
...Carney's officers visited eleven Naples restaurants, while Carney himself, with the top brass of six nations, sat down to an array of pizza at the Hotel Excelsior. After the evidence was finally tucked away and evaluated, Carney gave his decision to Italian radio listeners: "I am a partisan of the Neapolitan pizza . . . but this discrepancy of point of view with Ike will not put any dent into the Atlantic defense line of Southern Europe...