Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making his debut in politics, Patrick promised to serve as "a representative of the total' community." ¶ In Bridgeport, Conn. (pop. 292,000), 79-year-old Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy was beaten by a slim 161 votes in a try for his 13th consecutive term. The winner: Democrat Samuel J. Tedesco, 42, who accused McLevy of undue conservatism and of standing pat while the city deteriorated.* But even Tedesco had regrets, saying: "I'm sorry it had to be Jasper. I accept the election with mixed feelings. I think the voters saw some of Jasper's qualities...
...Samuel P. Huntington, assistant professor of Government, said that the program the President outlined was "certainly called for," and that Dr. Killian "is the best...
Other authors in the issue are disturbed, but again not disturbing. Reinhold Niebuhr shows the concern of religion for the failure of our enlightenment to solve the eternal problems, but aside from a line on "our gadgetfilled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity" his concern is academic. Samuel Eliot Morison does prove that things have changed; "young William (Hickling Prescott) had gone through Harvard College gaily and easily, but lost an eye as a result of a brawl in college commons." Morison, however, devotes a very interesting article to the unknown historian and his claims for recognition...
Rapidly it becomes clear that T.T.'s bank, like the Musical Bank in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, deals not only in money but in moral imponderables. For the Soviet banker, unbalanced books are a small matter, but the failure to balance the books of the sacred Marx-Lenin-Stalin writings may prove fatal. The action dissolves in a mirage of Marxist motivation: whom to bribe with what is the problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved...
Concurrently, Jane Stouffer, daughter of Professor Samuel Stouffer, has her first exhibition in this country after having shown last year in Florence. Her casein paintings and color woodcuts of Venetian, Florentine and other motifs make their debut in high company at the Gropper, exhibiting considerable control and a highly personal use of the media...