Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTY CARATS is precisely the sort of show that people say helps them to forget the trials and tribulations of the day. The story of Julie Harris as a middle-aged lady wooed and won by a lad just about half her age is never less than civilized...
...Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a former subordinate and sometime critic of Eisenhower, said last week, "He had only to smile at you, and there was nothing you would not do for him." Even as a five-star general, Ike could extend his hand to an enlisted man and say: "My name's Eisenhower." He was also, perhaps, the only President who ever apologized (in 1955) for the length of his State of the Union address...
Detachment, however, had its price, and Eisenhower's contempt for politics often hobbled his leadership. Though he despised Wisconsin's demagogic Senator Joseph McCarthy, he refused to say a public word against him?even when McCarthy viciously attacked George Marshall, and even when a word from the President might have brought McCarthy to heel. "I am convinced that the way for me to defeat Senator McCarthy is to ignore him," Eisenhower noted in a personal memo in April 1953. "Never to admit that he has damaged me, upset me, or anything else." Again, Ike's above-the-battle concept...
Eisenhower will probably not be remembered as a great President. Many problems that haunt the nation, from the racial crisis to the Viet Nam conflict, would be less inflamed today if they had been seized upon in the '50s. The Eisenhower Administration's record on civil rights was, to say the least, undistinguished. "I have very little faith," he would say in the tones of Ecclesiastes that the next decade would find unacceptable, "in the ability of law to change the human heart or eliminate prejudice." Much as Eisenhower's Abilene background strengthened him for the great tests...
...American humor. Groucho's flip irrelevancies foreshadowed the theater of the absurd: "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse." Harpo was a troll bridge between the silents and the talkies. "How can you write for Harpo?" shrugged George S. Kaufman. "All you can say is, 'Harpo enters.' From that point on, he's on his own." Though Chico's accent was an Italian defamation league all to itself, his shrewd con-mannerisms and manic assaults on the piano were often brilliant pieces of destructive...