Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waiting for Policy. Still another characteristic of the first session of the 83rd was the fact that, as in most postwar Congresses, the spotlight of world news was elsewhere-on Moscow, Seoul and Panmunjom. This was partly the luck of the news. (Congress could hardly compete with Stalin's death, Beria's arrest, Rhee's stubborn stand, or the Korean truce.) But partly it was due to the fact that the initiative in world politics is still not in the hands of the U.S. The first great steps in getting it there are not up to Congress...
...signs appear that even some liberals look askance at the myth they helped to create. A recent issue of the Nation warns: "It is a mistake . . . to keep the spotlight focused on McCarthy; this is what he wants his opposition to do." In the New York Post, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., co-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, tried to deflate the myth at the point of origin. Wrote Schlesinger: "The record shows . . . that the notion of McCarthy's invincibility is largely legendary. He certainly cannot be credited with the defeat of seven Senators . . . McCarthy conducted a vigorous campaign against...
Having no crystal ball to foretell the Legion's future actions, the next best indicator is the American Legion Magazine which follows the party line pretty well. Throughout the year, the magazine ran stories showing education in the pinkest spotlight possible, among them, "Our Academic Hucksters." After a barrage of "Smart Alecs," "Brainy Boys," and "Reds," the article asked, "How many courses in contemporary literature use George Orwell's Animal Farm or 1984, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Wittaker Chambers' Witness (probably the greatest autobiography in the world)? Instead they ballyhoo the dull books of the cultural left--Grapes...
...spotlight his name is Mister Mistin, Jr., and he is a little boy of five-going-on-six. As the star of the circus he is the envy of all who ever gummed spun sugar. His blond hair is long and in curls, and his Lord Fauntleroy suit shows no wrinkles. But who would dare call the confidante of lion tamers a sissy...
Having no crystal ball to foretell the Legion's future actions, the next best indicator is the American Legion Magazine which follows the party line pretty well. Throughout the year, the magazine ran stories showing education in the pinkest spotlight possible, among them, "Our Academic Hucksters." After a barrage of "Smart Alecs," "Brainy Boys," and "Reds," the article asked, "How many courses in contemporary literature use George Orwell's Animal Farm or 1984, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Wittaker Chambers' Witness (probably the greatest autobiography in the world)? Instead they ballyhoo the dull books of the cultural left--Grapes...