Word: spending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Joseph Fitzpatrick's view on Puerto Rican crime [Oct. 26] is the typical head-in-the-clouds attitude of sociologists, who spend too much time in the library and not enough time in the streets. Irish and German immigrant crime a century ago is a historical fact but not an excuse for today's crime. Father Fitzpatrick and other sociologists should present workable solutions to immigrant crime instead of simply apologizing...
...danger of strontium 90 in the air, would ban further nuclear test explosions. Playwright Schary's central figure, Dr. Aaron Cornish (Kenneth MacKenna) is a famous atomic scientist stricken, very possibly because of his nuclear activities, with acute leukemia. In any case, after self-searching, he determines to spend what months remain to him urging an end to nuclear-bomb tests...
...architecture is "poetic, structural, febrile." Abstract art now powerfully expresses U.S. imagination-"sometimes grotesque, often naive, but never pale, never passive." Realism, by contrast, seems now "like a political party defeated in a landslide." As for U.S. patrons: "No social group in history has been so willing to spend money on the arts and sciences...
...Christmas party and the spring musical, visiting scholars, and House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time. I spend some hours at the polls now, but I no longer am able to lobby at the State House. Winthrop House and its problems have pretty well taken over...
...Husband No. 2 (Richard Egan), who had been lovers in their teens, fall in love again, and one night they slip off to the old boathouse together. Meanwhile, Egan's daughter (Sandra Dee) and McGuire's son (Troy Donahue), both in their teens, wreck a sailboat and spend the night on a deserted beach. When Husband No. 1 (Arthur Kennedy) and Wife No. 2 (Constance Ford) wake up to what has been going on, they sue for divorces, demand custody of the children, pack them off to school by the first train. The adulterers get married and live...