Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets at night. Some 75 police reservists were alerted for emergency duty; special squads were armed with shotguns and tear gas. Alabama Governor James E. Folsom, after a tour of the damaged areas, offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the bombers. "Any person," said he, "who would bomb the House of the Lord endangers the life of every man, woman and child in Montgomery. I call on all people of Alabama to help stamp out such lawlessness wherever it may occur...
...have been confused (or misled), to old-school Japanese, even the thought of comparing a.geisha to a prostitute is abhorrent. With the collapse of old traditions and the adoption of new standards in democratic Japan, the tightly cocooned and tradition-encrusted world of the geisha (whose name means literally "person of art") has undergone some drastic changes and constantly faces the threat of more. A good geisha today must be able to play not only the ancient mandolin-like samisen and the plaintive flute but an adequate 18 holes of golf as well, in case her patron wishes...
...Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow visits Jackie Robinson, Bill Cullen...
What with the cold and the snow and the inexorable approach of exams, "a person could develop a cold," as apparently a number have. Nevertheless they say that every cloud has a silver lining. For instance, President Jordan has announced that Radcliffe girls are making higher marks than ever. And some nuclear physicists at Columbia have discovered for the first time that it is possible to distinguish between a reflection and the real thing, or to tell one's right hand from his left, or something of that kind. At any rate, it's reassuring to know that the physical...
Furthermore, I am convinced that Beckett modeled his Didi largely on a specific person. Didi's name is the phonetic equivalent of "D.D.," i.e. "Doctor of Divinity." And early in the play Didi starts a discussion of the Gospels. He introduces quite a bit of philosophizing; he sings a ballad and a lullaby; and he has ministered to Gogo spiritually and materially for 50 years, and repeatedly makes medical allusions and diagnoses. Now what person fills the bill--theologian, philosopher, musician, physician, and compassionate servant of the less fortunate for half a century? Albert Schweitzer. If you think this...