Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson has not lost his weakness for production line humor. (Recent sample, commenting on a candidate for a Pentagon job: "His horsepower is too big for his flywheel.") But top career officers at the Pentagon who have seen four other Defense Secretaries come and go respect Wilson as a better administrator, production and financial man than any of his predecessors. They respect, too, the motives that brought him, at 62, to take the arduous Pentagon job. Since he sold his General Motors stock to qualify as Defense Secretary, Wilson's 39,470 shares, now in other hands, have gone...
...Académie uniform tailored (by Lanvin) of midnight blue instead of the traditional green with gold braid, and his sword (by Cartier) with a hilt modeled to represent a profile of Oedipus. In his initiation speech, Cocteau turned the flow of his conversation on the Immortals with a respect tempered only gently by the old glint of satiric impertinence. "The time is coming when one will no longer be able to read or write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets to each other," he told the assembled academicians. "I express the wish that the academy at that time...
Columbia President Frederick C. Schang Jr. said the practices charged had stopped seven years ago. Nevertheless, in a New York U.S. District Court, the agencies pleaded nolo contendere to the criminal suit, and entered into a consent decree with respect to the civil. The decree restrained them "from allocating or dividing territories" and from "interfering with competition." The court also administered a judicial slap on the wrist: fines of $10,000 for Columbia's Community Concerts, $2,000 apiece for the others...
...until public opinion turned against the schools, the Dean of Students, A. Chester Hanford, did not feel that any rule outlawing the schools would be effective. As the CRIMSON stated in a front-page editorial on April 18, 1939, "Harvard's collective conscience has almost completely disappeared in this respect; students regularly cheat and feel no qualms about so doing...
Next cliché: he decides to quit, go back to New York, find a play he believes in, recover his self-respect. Enter the Big Producer (Rod Steiger), who would be the silliest ogre since Jack and the Beanstalk if he were not at the same time a frighteningly close caricature of a well-known Hollywood type-the self-made magnate who demonstrates in his person, as Fred Allen once remarked, "the horrors, of unskilled labor." Producer lays it on the line: sign the contract or go to jail (for the hit-and-run killing of a girl, committed while...