Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time he had read Sidney Hook, James Burnham and Edmund Burke, he had decided that "to be a conservative today, you have to be a radical." This conclusion led to a $350-a-month assistant editorship on the Freeman magazine and another job with another right-wing magazine, the National Review, put out by his wealthy Yale friend, William (God and Man at Yale) Buckley. "The American tradition," Evans proclaimed in the Review, "is unequivocally conservative." Evans still serves the National Review as a contributing editor...
Bull or Bear? Was this the end of the slide, or only a breather in the midst of a big bear market? Sidney Lurie of Josephthal & Co. shot off a wire at midweek to trusts and big customers reading: "Seems to me we're days if not hours away from a real trading bottom. I'd watch for buys...
...Young Men (Hall Bartlett; Columbia) expertly blends two traditions rich in cinematic cliche-the war movie and the fearless-denunciation-of-race-bigotry movie. Sidney Poitier, an accomplished actor so discriminated against because of his color that he will probably never be allowed to play a character who is not strong, sensitive and noble, is a Marine sergeant whose unit is chopped to pieces during a Korean war skirmish. The only officer dies, and Poitier takes over, despite a near mutiny by Paul Richards, a race-baiter who calls him "night-fighter." and Alan Ladd, a surly type...
...social rise and moral downfall is Rex Boone, a "bozzle bonce," meaning a chap who is handicapped by intelligence, good manners and a U-type accent. Boone, also facetiously known as "Gangster" or "Gangst," is fatally crippled by having a gentle nature. Like Gunga Din or Sir Philip Sidney, of whom Dinger has vaguely heard, Boone is a "real mug" with "no future." Yet for a while, Dinger and Boone are "chinas," or buddies.* They try to assert their individuality against the khaki mass, against superior officers who are "189% swine," and against the witless cruelty of a state that...
Nearly everyone wants to know how life on earth began, says Biochemist Sidney W. Fox of Florida State University, but most scientists who conjecture about it merely theorize. They do not test their ideas by actual experiments. Dr. Fox and a few others have been experimenting, and in Science Dr. Fox tells what luck they have had so far in charting the secret paths followed by nature in the creation of life...