Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social Democrats of West Germany have lost the last three elections and seem doomed to lose .the next-unless they stop calling Volkswagen-driving Germans "comrades," discard their faded red proletarian banners and try to attract the middle-class votes that alone can win them first place. The dissension in West Germany's Socialist opposition has been largely obscured by the spectacular personal struggle between Chancellor Adenauer and Vice Chancellor Erhard in the ruling Christian Democrats...
Under the monolithic 1945 constitution, which he helped devise, Sukarno can be both President and Premier, responsible only to a 500-man Consultative Council-more than half of whose members he will nominate himself. It would seem the perfect blueprint for a dictatorship anywhere except in Indonesia, whose 3.000 scattered islands, 87 million individualistic citizens, poor communications, endemic rebellions and strong regional rivalries are too chaotic to be mastered even by a tyranny...
...side arms, sputters some real far-out riffs on his revolver. Worst fault: the inconsistency of speech. Four of the featured players speak the king's English. Two of them talk plain American. Only the bit-players, picked up from the Abbey Theater and other Dublin companies, ever seem to have honestly laid lip to the Blarney stone...
...programs seem as if they were made up entirely of commercials. Last week Los Angeles' KTTV went all the way, put on Cavalcade of Spots, a half-hour show that was in fact nothing but commercials...
...founding fathers of the U.S. make a somewhat solemn gallery in the mind. Remembered mostly from portraits painted late in their hardworking, often harsh lives, they seem austere, wrinkled and careworn. Now a miniature portrait of one of the greatest of them, Thomas Jefferson, has come to light, showing him as he really appeared in the fateful summer...