Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electorate made a mistake in electing Eisenhower instead of Stevenson in 1956. Stevenson should be elected President in 1960, but to be elected, he must first be nominated. The politicians who nominate often lag behind the people who elect. I hope that the Democratic politicians do not compound the past failure of the electorate by refusing to give the American people the democratic opportunity of correcting an error...
...notice that the Roman Catholics are at last building churches that are in good taste; far too many of them have exhibited appalling taste in the past, particularly in their church interiors. Old-fashioned parlor frills, shrines and plaster statues with painted faces resembling Kewpie dolls have no place in a tasteful church interior, and reduce it to the level of the 5 & 10? store. Church interiors and altars that reflect peaceful dignity and serene beauty are nearly always found among the Lutheran and Episcopal churches. It looks as though the Roman Catholics have taken a lesson from them...
...imaginative recommendations. Paratrooper Gavin declared that the Army could have put up its own Sputnik before the Russians (but was dealt out of the race), complained of what he felt was the continuing downgrading of the Army's mission in modern war, urged that the U.S. head straight past missile development into the no man's land of space-war thinking; e.g., develop a sophisticated satellite for reconnaissance as well as an anti-satellite weapon. Then, rising beyond his passionate service loyalties, Jim Gavin pointed out the weaknesses of the present Joint Chiefs of Staff establishment, said that...
...ever had." Gavin, who will be eligible for retirement in March, explained with his customary bluntness: "I am getting out, frankly, because I feel I can do more for our country's defense effort out of uniform than in. I have spent 6½ years out of the past nine in the Pentagon, and I haven't been able to do the things I think ought to be done. I have asked, recommended and pleaded with little success...
...Maids was written by Jean Genet, whose notoriety is far more abundant than his talent as a writer. He is reputed to be a man with a past full of most imaginative sexual contacts, and less imaginative jail sentences. As a playwright he draws on his acquaintance with the part of mankind most easily mistakable for rats, and adds a grotesque imagination to depressing subject matter. Occasionally, pure ugliness achieves dramatic effect via shock. Often it is simply ugly...