Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great senatorial statesmen, aging (78) and respected Walter George. To outward appearances, Herman has progressed not only beyond his father's viciousness and venom but beyond the uncertainties that haunted the brash youth who seized the governorship in Atlanta that rainy night nearly ten years ago. Smooth and suave as an actor, Herman in his "tel-lee-vision" (as he calls it) appearances has convinced Georgians "that a Talmadge doesn't have horns and a tail, and that he wears shoes." He has abandoned his father's blatant white-supremacy tactics, instead speaks airily of constitutional government...
...that very morning before he began to talk of trade in dried fruits. Sometimes he wondered, Chamoun added with a touch of bitterness, if the East or West really wanted stability in the Middle East. Later, at Amritsar in the Punjab, Scott faced an audience of bearded Sikhs and smooth-jowled Indian businessmen who bombarded him with questions about U.S. foreign policy, morals and politics. And soon afterwards, a Calcutta editor challenged him to defend discrimination in the U.S., demanding: "Would you be comfortable sitting down to dinner with a black Indian-not a brown Indian like myself...
...Smooth That Wrinkle. Jackie refuses to share a platform with Saund ("I'm the popular national figure; why should I give him the publicity?"); Instead she darts around the district on her own, outfitted for frequent changes of clothes in the hot weather (she believes that a rumpled woman candidate wins no votes) and armed with a card catalogue on issues. She is well up on unique valley-farm problems such as irrigation and the astronomical cost of good land, promises to try to bring small business into the area if elected. Last week, when a listener asked...
Though he does not see the Qumran sect as the originator of Christianity, Allegro feels that it profoundly influenced the first Christians. Withdrawn into the desert from the persecution of a corrupt priesthood in Jerusalem, holding in contempt the scribes and Pharisees (whom they called "Seekers After Smooth Things"), the Qumran community practiced baptism, chastity, community of goods. They wrote the ritual of a Messianic banquet with breaking of bread and blessing of wine, which Allegro boldly suggests may prefigure the Last Supper and Christian Communion. They expected the imminent end of the world and the coming of two Messiahs...
...acute case of globalitis-for Wiley, as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had doggedly supported President Eisenhower's internationalist policies. The prescription was a ruthless purge, and the man nominated to bring it off in the primaries was Glen R. Davis, 41, a handsome, smooth-talking fifth-term Congressman who believes in the Bricker amendment and in tapering off on foreign aid. Old Alex Wiley left the convention in tears (TIME, June 4), but he stubbornly decided to run anyway...