Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President George N. Shuster of Hunter College made another sort of headline: he proposed that Senator McCarthy be investigated. "I would remind you," he told the National Civil Liberties Clearing House in Washington, "that the university has always been a forum in the presence of which the lords of the passing hour are subjected to scrutiny. No doubt the time has come to ask on what meat this our Caesar has fed, and to review his activities with the utmost objectivity, calm and chilly resolution, so that an authoritative report can be made to the people...
...strange that a company so proud of its heritage should suddenly forget America was weaned and strengthened on dissent and ideas. But perhaps insurance companies must be sensitive to public opinion. It probably wouldn't take too many letters to remind the company of the principles of John Hancock. The lease runs out in May, and can still be renewed...
...though eager to remind you of its versatility, the camera occasionally wanders out of the kitchen where the action takes place, into other rooms or into the garden, but its travels add nothing to the play. The film version, however, brings the play two dividends: notable music by Alex North and, more important, searching close-up shots of the principals, Showing the great properties of the movie medium, the close-ups endow the scene in which Miss Waters sings a comforting hymn with a beauty which only the camera could capture. Yet even the close-ups sometimes betray the script...
...remind Mr. Allen that Pope Pius XII is considered infallible only in matters concerning faith and morals. Also, that the great majority of "400 million people" are in no position to dictate the economic and military policies of their ravaged countries, but must wait hopefully and pray that the new President's Administration will restore their dignity and fill their stomachs...
...Golden Triangle, Price runs his side of the race with all the quiet, unspectacular efficiency of one of his electric motors. No desk-pounder, when he wants something done, he offers it as a polite suggestion. But if it isn't done, Price is apt to remind a deputy: "When I make a suggestion. I don't mean it to be ignored." His aides have learned that he has "a whim of iron." He always uses the direct approach, either phones a man or sees him. writes no memos, hates even to dictate letters...