Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such bile leaks freely from the pen of Cassandra, whose reigning creative climate is the icy winter of discontent. In 20 splenetic years on the Mirror he has hissed a steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they...
Neglected by the party leader in the White House, Republican organization fell almost completely apart while Democrats put together smooth-working machines in state after state. In California, Indiana and Utah, Republican factions spent more time fighting each other than fighting Democrats. But in Ohio Democrat Di Salle, beaten by O'Neill by 428,000 votes in 1956, went to work with State Chairman William Coleman, spent two years building up an effective organization, during the campaign held at least seven seminars in every congressional district to teach workers the best vote-hunting techniques. In Minnesota Democratic Representative Eugene...
...Arkansas Congressman Brooks Hays worked conscientiously for the U.S. from an increasingly senior Foreign Affairs Committee seat, for his state on projects such as the Arkansas River development program. But Moderate Hays, who is also president of the 9,000,000-member Southern Baptist Convention, attempted in addition to smooth the inevitable course of integration; in mid-1957 he brought President Eisenhower and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus together at Newport, R.I. in an attempt to forestall the Little Rock crisis. Among Little Rock white supremacists, Brooks Hays, 60, has been unpopular ever since. Last week they kicked...
Kansas: For the first time since it became a state, Kansas handed a second term to a Democratic Governor. The winner, Banker George Docking, shrewdly spent his first two years building a smooth-running donkey engine in this G.O.P. stronghold, won friends in thrifty Kansas by vetoing a state sales tax increase, relied on bounteous crops and rural content, neatly knocked down promising Republican Contender Clyde Reed...
...hand at departmental politics, but he was also a great scholar. About to die, Greg decided to play a splendid little joke on the "academic community." The story, which carries a subtle overtone of Shavian irony, took place at a fictional university, but the characters are familiar: the smooth and politic department chairman, the impressive "Great Ideas" lecturer with little scholarship in his background, the pale, imitative young instructor. Perhaps the tale is not entirely uninteresting to officers and students of Harvard University...