Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Favorite target of Prague wits is the plump, unlearned wife of Premier Klement Gottwald. They say she met a friend who twittered: "We are going tonight to the Marriage of Figaro. Will you be there...
...Have you heard His voice? Have you opened the door? Has He come in? Will you thank Him for coming? Definitely say thank you to Him-say thank...
...conscience" that is not invariably right a reliable conscience? Pearson's detractors would say no; his admirers would say yes. The majority on the sidelines would agree with his admirers-or how else, they would say, can we have freedom of the press? But editors-and the public-could wish that Pearson, and his fellow hip-shooting columnists, show more care in getting it right, rather than getting it first-and a greater sense of responsibility in deciding what is legitimate public news and what is mere troublemaking gossip...
Last week everybody on the New Jersey campus, from President Robert C. Clothier to the newest freshman (and including secretaries and janitors), was tackling the first "Book of the Year": Anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. The campus Philosophean Society had picked it on Peterson's say-so: he called it "a noble, beautiful, important book." If they get through the first one, he has some more up his sleeve: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland...
...than ever, "more and cheaper consumer services" are still needed. "As long as these needs exist, we should not worry about having a 'mature' economy. We still have a frontier to push forward." When it was over, one delegate commented: "This was a damn good speech. I say that, and I'm an old Tory...