Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always had to work"-as a drugstore clerk, a lifeguard, a package wrapper. He never got to finish high school. Most of his fun came through St. Peter's Church, where he sang in the choir. St. Peter's had a well-run athletic program, a swimming pool, a summer camp. "It meant everything in my whole life as a kid," says Pardue. "I began to feel that the church had done so much for me that I might go into the ministry. There was nothing pious about...
...only on "what could not be done." He grieved, but he did not give up. Oddly enough, his disillusioned outcry came in a week when France for the first time in its history pledged itself to surrender some of its sovereignty: the French Parliament ratified the Schuman Plan to pool Europe's coal and steel. One of two traditional enemies was willing to share with the other the very source of power and strength over which they had fought so often. It might be but a mere pinprick in the barrier of distrust. Yet through that pinprick shone...
Above the squabbles of Europe, and its own internal jealousies, the voice of France sounded bold and clear last week. By a thumping 377-233 majority, the French National Assembly ratified Foreign Minister Robert Schuman's two-year-old plan to pool Europe's coal and steel resources. It was proof-and proof was badly needed-that France can still take the lead in Europe when boldly led herself...
...modernize and increase production and productivity. Unlike most international bodies, the Schuman Plan High Authority will have teeth of its own. It will be responsible to a 78-man Assembly elected by the six national Parliaments, but its decisions will be enforceable (by fines) on all members of the pool. It will have power to close down inefficient and wasteful enterprises within the pool...
Maugham is Britain's last playwright with Restoration blood in his veins. It is very cold blood; feeling curdles the comedy of manners. It can tingle at naughtiness, but it treats sex as a springboard rather than a swimming pool. Maugham's Constance Middleton can pretend ignorance of her husband's affair with her best friend, can lie to save them when the other husband learns the truth. And-for all that she and Middleton have fallen amiably out of love-she will not herself take a lover until she earns a living, is no more...