Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...utopianism, people were frightened away from any social dreaming. But they need it to clarify their values in the real world, to define their ends. Says Riesman: "The fervently repeated American cold-war formula that the end does not justify the means tends to become more than a wholly proper critique of Soviet ruthlessness; it encourages us to forget that we do need ends, precisely to justify, and criticize, our means. The contradiction between ends and means, the inescapable tension, is what Marxism and like ideologies pretend to evaporate...
Losing Game. All week, McCarthy and his young lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, sought to show that Joe had not overstepped the bounds of proper senatorial behavior. McCarthy's defense was aimed at proving that McCarthy acted precisely as have other Senators, past and present. For the first time since his Wheeling speech in 1950, Joe was trying to lose himself among his colleagues...
...Arrests. According to Premier Za-hedi's government, the ring was set up not only to spy but to start a rebellion at the proper moment, with its agents so placed as to be able to assassinate the Shah, the Premier and other key figures. It had an accurate picture of the strength and disposition of the entire Iranian armed force, including an itemization and location of all U.S.-supplied equipment. Tragically enough, some of the ring's most useful informants were not Reds but pro-Mossadegh officers suckered into what they thought was a simple plot...
...have been urged by his superiors to be more restrained, instead chose to resign from the C.Y.O., which was the biggest of his many jobs. Editorialized the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal: "The announcement is bound to cause a great deal of sour speculation and suspicion. [We hope] that the proper authorities will soon quiet the suspicions of those who think Bishop Sheil may have paid the price McCarthyism demands of all who venture to speak out against...
...Beacon Hill and Harvard glow with warmth, the Charles is mirrorlike and the winter sun, casting long shadows, is bright on the bare trees. His ruler-drawn interior, Vista from Within, suggests the antiseptic foyer of a brand-new medical building. Fransioli's neatness and light reminded proper Bostonians of their childhood, and Down East ladies cooed over familiar Maine scenes while they fingered Artist Fransioli's trompe-l'oeil detail...