Word: paton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitor to Greenville, Miss., Novelist Alan Paton, whose Cry, the Beloved Country was an eloquent condemnation of South Africa's white-supremacy notions, eyed Southern U.S. race relations. Said Briton Paton: "In Mississippi I find a determination to provide equal but separate facilities [for whites and Negroes]. The time has come when the people of the South are willing to pay more for their prejudices than before...
...Paton of the winners was high scorer with 17 points. Apley is still undefeated while Stoughton now has lost one. The winner of the second round will meet Apley in March...
...Administration, McCarthy charged, has not done enough to fight Communism. He wanted to know why John Paton Davies Jr., who tried "to put Communists and espionage agents in key spots in the Central Intelligence Agency," is still a "high official" of the State Department. This was a standard McCarthy twister. Davies, now counselor of the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru, once got into trouble with the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee because of testimony that he had recommended Communists...
Again disagreeing with the President, Senator McCarthy reiterated his belief that the influence of Communism in goverment will be the key issue in the 1954 and 1956 political campaigns. But he carefully avoided any reference to John Paton Davis, State Department aid who figured prominently in this week's debate...
...very well for Author Paton to indulge in such threnodies for his hero, rather in the manner of the chorus in a Greek tragedy. But if he had called off his chorus now and then and given his characters some elbow room, he might at least have made Too Late the Phalarope a little clearer than its title. The phalarope (a small bird like a sandpiper) serves Author Paton as a symbol for innocence. Hard to say just...