Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confessions of Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think of as the ennobling virtues of man-his capacity for self-sacrifice...
...denies that Butler is a fast-moving, hard-working chairman (he has had just three days of vacation this year), but his enemies say he works hardest at offending the party's bigwigs with his acidly articulate speeches against the Democratic leaders of Congress, Southern segregationists-any target of opportunity. "There is no question that there's a sit-down on money," says one party wheel horse. "All the other money raisers are cool toward Butler or actually dislike him." In his threatening notice last week, Butler did nothing to appease them. As they well know, some adamantly...
...into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States." Even today, India's state-owned radio uses Bharat in Hindi-language programs, but, as one Indian put it, "It is one thing to hear a Hindi-speaking news reader say 'Bharat,' and another to have it leap up at you in print in an English-language Pakistani newspaper...
...show is funny. But the humorous part of the program could be funnier, and truer to Twain if some of the cuttings were better. If Twain is "America's funniest humorist," as all the advertisements say, and even if he isn't--much of his charm rests on an especially endowed talent for spinning the old Western tall tale. Sometimes the story-teller, without cracking a smile, is able to convince his victim that his whole tale is gospel truth and is able to use this tale for all sorts of devious ends. But the comic aspect lies chiefly...
...majority of the Faculty live in Cambridge, their friends are made within the departments. Even more corporateness is manifested than in a large business organization. It would be unusual to find all IBM employees living in the same neighborhood and to find them all friends. Whatever William Whyte may say of the organization man in business, to some extent this syndrome is ever more6Along with other Faculty wives, Mrs. McGeorge Bundy finds time for varied activities while raising a family...