Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cummings (no relation) proves the need for some sort of national subsidy for poets and day, a writers. Otherwise where would E. E. be today, a man who couldn't earn his bread because he wouldn't sell his head...As for E. E.'s remark that he's glad he's no longer young because his generation "had something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy," that is sheer nonsense. For one thing, we haven't got anarchy (which might have good points), but cold, dreary economic complusion. For another, with...
...days. Instead of being displeased, Tech Coach Robert Lee Dodd, easy and relaxed, gave credit to the other team rather than blaming his own. Said Dodd: "We're not too disappointed. After seeing the way Alabama played, we were extremely happy to win it at all." The remark summed up Dodd's whole coaching thesis: "I coach just like I would want to be coached if I was back in college-and the way I'd like my son to be coached." At Georgia Tech, they come as close as any big-league squad can to playing...
This, I hope, will serve to clarify another remark found in the sub-title of the story--that could be mistakenly interpreted by the reader: my contention that American policy has not been "tough enough." that "it appeases Argentina...
...Democrats for their most disastrous foreign policy failure: "The Administration passes on to the people this cheerful, if astonishing, news: 'We have blocked the road to Communist domination of the Far East.' In honest stupefaction the people must ask: Can this man [Adlai Stevenson, who made the remark on Sept. 27 in Louisville] be serious? Can an Administration frankly confessing that it could not prevent the loss of China-the whole heart of Asia-have the audacity to boast nonetheless of having 'blocked' the Communists in Asia?" Eisenhower favors an effective Pacific defense pact. He advocates...
...title comes from a remark of Ma's, the happy day she watched her eldest graduate from high school. Later, on their 50th wedding anniversary, Pa went back to the idea in a little family speech, and added a thought of his own. "I always did the best for my kids," he said. "I put them all through high school and"-he cried triumphantly-"not one of them have ever been arrested...