Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indo-China, April 1954. Dulles flew to London to advocate united action to save the French fortress at Dienbienphu. Dulles returned believing the British had agreed to support him, but two weeks later "the British had had a change of heart." Nonetheless, Dulles now contends, his readiness to intervene in Indo-China gave the British and French a basis of strength from which they negotiated the truce agreement at Geneva. Shepley wrote: "Dulles had seen to it that the Chinese and the Soviets knew that the U.S. was prepared to act decisively to prevent the fall of all of Southeast...
...women. At first a hotel owner hesitated before renovating a wing or papering over the flaked walls of a grand ballroom, wondering whether there would be time to amortize his investment. A prospering Chinese plastics maker deliberated whether to plow back his profits into his business or to save the cash for a future flight. But increasingly, the decision has been to take the risk. New office buildings, new houses rise. As a depository for the wealth of insecure rich men, Hong Kong ranks high-a steady flow of funds comes in from all over Asia for investment (in housing...
...billion, a record total nearly doubling the 1954 figure. The prime reason for all this lavish giving was that high taxes make generosity an inexpensive proposition. The effect of taxes on charity was succinctly explained by New York Welfare Commissioner Henry L. McCarthy: "You have to spend money to save money." One of the best ways to do both, as an increasing number of businessmen and corporations are finding out, is to set up a charitable foundation or trust...
Moreover, this reinforces the fact that O'Casey's true genius is comic, that his tragedy-save perhaps in The Plough and the Stars-verges on sentimentality or melodrama. It is laughter that really soars in Red Roses, not feeling or poetry. The verbal gifts are there. But too often they miss magic by striving for it, or seem almost to be spoofing the Irish love of words. But where Synge, in The Playboy, could spoof that love and in the very process make prose beautiful, a more reflective O'Casey mingles honest rhythms with gaudy ones...
...overwhelmed by Indians, the cavalry rushes to the rescue. NBC, beset on all sides by the audience-grabbing shows of CBS, has created its own rescue column out of the zany comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Last season they were the only ones consistently able to save the Colgate Hour from its clobberings by CBS's Ed Sullivan. Last month, when the Milton Berle Show was beaten twice by Phil Silvers, Martin & Lewis charged to Berle's rescue and reversed the trend. They have similarly beefed up the ratings of other NBC programs, from...