Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Workers under 30 are most worried about losing their jobs, tend to favor drastic Government action, "With relatively little seniority or developed skills, these younger workers seem least secure. They also have plunged deepest into debt to buy new homes and autos." It will take a while before families in this plight do much buying of durable goods...
Still worse is the fact that, as Salisbury says, "for most New Yorkers, the problem of delinquency does not seem to be immediate or personal."* One who knows the problem from all sides is a 23-year-old (now married) former gang member named Stoney. Says he: "We older fellows -we've got to go cool. But those little ones coming up. They're the real problem. Something's got to be done about them, or I don't know where we'll be at." Stoney, a leading bopper in his day, was not fooling...
...talked happily of a resurgence of Liberalism. None but the most starry-eyed of Liberals thought there was any real possibility of taking power themselves. But on the basis of their strong showing in recent by-elections, they now pose a very real threat to the Tories. Liberal candidates seem to be taking 2½ votes from the Tories for every one they have taken from Labor. Translated into a general election, such figures would not gain the Liberals many seats. But by drawing away Tory votes, they could lead to a Labor capture of 40-50 normally Tory seats...
...minute later she bursts into his office to say, "Thank you for taking such a personal interest," and while she's at it, she takes time to bestow her condescension on a famed actress (Joan Greenwood) who happens to be there. The actress, who does not seem to appreciate these attentions, returns them gracefully: "The theater's gain is Macy's loss...
...Leopold served 33 years of his sentence (life plus 99 years) in Illinois prisons for his share in the "Crime of the Century." His account of how he made the transition from front-page monster to model prisoner is pitiable, but it would need genius-which his friends seem to claim for him, and which he seems not to have -to make the story tragic. Such men as Leopold lead a strange existence-condemned to life, but forbidden to live it. The main part of the book is concerned with details of prison existence-often, perhaps, most interesting to students...