Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gushy. Both Osgood and Frank agreed that Communist China's aggressive big mouth may be a result of its fear of American power-sheer "bluster and growl" to ward off a powerful competitor. Frank even suggested therapy. "In approaching a deeply suspicious person," he cautioned, "it does not pay to be too friendly. Since he is convinced that you mean him no good, he is prone to misinterpret an overly friendly manner as an effort to put something over on him. So a firm, reserved, but not unfriendly manner makes more headway than effusiveness." In many ways, Frank...
...better prepared to be a citizen for all reasons than a nongraduate," he says. Turning the statistical tables on his anti-college-deferment critics, he says: "Look at the people who are serving. Who are they? They're most likely to be the middle-class and upper-class person. Those denied a chance to go to school are not included: some 2,500,000 are rejected because they cannot pass the mental test. That's unfair to the college student...
Elsewhere, 700 U.S. commissioners issue warrants, set bail; and determine whether there is probable cause to hold an accused person pending grand-jury action. Most of them can try petty cases and mete out sentences up to six months. Yet 30% of the commissioners are not lawyers; all are paid only by fees (annual maximum: $10,500) that impoverish the able, particularly among fulltime commissioners, and tempt the greedy to issue shaky warrants. The system is now under fire in Congress...
...quite the most interesting person we knew," wrote Novelist Henry James of his friend John La Farge. In fact, La Farge convinced James that he should write rather than paint, then used his brother, Philosopher William, as the model for St. John in an uncompleted altarpiece. La Farge also succeeded in smuggling a touch of the Renaissance back to the U.S., revived the art of stained glass, and visited Tahiti with sketchbook in hand before Gauguin got there. Unlike many of his well-educated countrymen, such as his contemporary Whistler, who became expatriates, La Farge put his talents to embellishing...
...convicted on all four counts Miss Bieberman faces a possible penalty of one year in jail and a $1000 fine for each count. She is the first person in New England to be prosecuted for an LSD violation of the federal...