Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhowers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the strike began to ease. Shops removed their shutters; factories reopened. The victory was Frondizi's. He quickly wrote off the win as a consolidation of his austere leadership, and rose before a joint session of the U.S. Congress to have his say about a proper attitude for the U.S. toward Latin America. "Peoples that are poor and without hope," he told a well-filled House chamber, "are not free peoples. A stagnant and impoverished country cannot uphold democratic institutions. On the contrary, it is fertile soil for anarchy and dictatorship." At the National Press...
...road. Whether in Bridgeport or Ashtabula, St. Joe or Altoona, so few citizens west of the Main Stem are paying to see touring shows that a conference of theater operators met in Manhattan to search for a way to boost show business in the sticks, or, as Variety might say, to look for trix to fix stix...
...silent Reporter Murrow, Manhattan wags were offering him this wry consolation: "Confucius say, 'Man who walks through whorehouse is sure to be misunderstood...
...Introduction to Haiku, estimates that 1,000,000 haiku are printed every year. Trains of Reverie. By Western standards, the haiku is far-out poetry. It does not rhyme. The strange nuances -even the punctuation has significance -usually get trampled in translation. The haiku does not even seem to say much; its fragile content defies explanation; its meaning must be found, not only in the haiku's simple imagery, but in the trains of reverie evoked in the reader. Even to the Japanese, this is not always an easy task. A haiku composed by the master, Matsuo Basho...
What is there left to say about love? Author Ellen Marsh seemingly says little in Unarmed in Paradise and yet has managed to say it all. The story is perhaps more spectacular because it happens in Paris, but anyone, however homebound, will feel the glow, the pain and the misery as surely as Author Marsh's lovers feel it in the city where it is presumed to be a byproduct of traveler's checks...