Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Relations Committee hearing, complained that he had been unable to hear the testimony; his staff discovered that he simply had not had his hearing aid turned up far enough. Last week Green's home-town Providence Journal sorrowfully made an editorial suggestion: "The time has come to say frankly that Senator Green can perform a final and unique service by stepping down as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations." Even as the suggestion was advanced, Teddy Green was in the process of drafting his letter of resignation...
...British-French-Israeli Suez invasion in November 1956. "The invading forces were withdrawn. Tolerable solutions were found through peaceful means." Had the U.S. tolerated the rule of force by its friends at Suez, "the whole peace effort represented by the U.N. would have collapsed . . . While it is premature to say that the Suez affair marks a decisive historical turning point, it may so prove...
When you flip through the highly polished pages of The New Yorker, you sometimes wonder whether a writer's facility leads you to forget that he has nothing to say. So, too, when you see a slickly-staged job of Shadow of a Gunman, you wonder whether Sean O'Casey invokes the world's enduring sentimentality for the Irish to obscure the fact that he dwells on an incident that seems trivial, an incident that is sadly pale when set beside the heroic achievements in human terror of which people have proven themselves so capable...
...bath" hysteria which has existed in some quarters, some have lost sight of the fact that not of all the persons tried have been convicted. In Santiago de Cuba, 24 were released, and in Matanzas, 50-odd were set free. It is probably the understatement of the year to say that there has been much misunderstanding lately between the U.S. and Cuba. Our well publicized calls for intervention or punishment in various forms are antagonizing not only the Cubans but people of all Latin American countries. In a conversation with Gustavo Olguin, Mexican movie and television executive, I learned that...
...this one, and fear the result sounds a little pompous.")--a view of contemporary culture and urban life in America. ("Urban life is all I really claim to know anything about.") Kronenberger is working on a follow-up along the same lines "if I can find enough to say that is really new, and not just repetition...