Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens agree. But Canadian External Affairs Secretary Howard Green, a staunch advocate of disarmament at the U.N., has long argued against the idea on the theory that the fewer countries with nuclear bases the better. And Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, ever mindful that opposition Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson once won a Nobel Peace Prize, backs him up. No nukes for Canada...
Kansas Republicans swept both Senatorial contests, with Frank Carlson defeating R.L. Smith and James Pearson downing Paul Aylward. The GOP also dominated the gubernatorial race as John Anderson won easily over Dale Saffels...
...available, and of those in print, many had been bowdlerized. For Wilde's trials left British society with a sense of collective embarrassment that lingered for decades. The author's son Vyvyan lived a life of "concealment and repression" under the name Holland. In 1946, when Hesketh Pearson published what is still the only good biography of Wilde, the playwright was still a forbidden subject among many who had known him. and much material necessary to a biographer simply was not available...
...with tolerance as the young wit, in an endless series of newspaper debates, carefully builds his reputation for outrageousness, and follows the unpredictable triumph of his American lecture tour, as the 27-year-old aesthete, dressed in velvet doublet and knee breeches, lectures enthusiastic Leadville miners on Italian art (Pearson's biography helps explain the Leadville success: it seems that Wilde wowed the miners by drinking them under the table). Wilde wrote back from Missouri: "Outside my window about a quarter of a mile to the west there stands a little yellow house, with a green paling...
...Supreme Vice. Wilde was a talker, one of the best who ever lived, and perhaps because he needed the stimulus of conversation, his letters were not so witty as his talk. Rather, the letters confirm Pearson's estimate of Wilde as a man utterly without meanness of spirit, the kindest and most gracious of egomaniacs. Constantly he is seen doing a kindness, praising another author, gracefully laughing off an insult. His own wit, unlike that of his artist friend Whistler, almost never dealt in insults (except when he was insulting Whistler; Wilde observed in one letter that Whistler...