Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These emerge not in any easy, step-by-step progression--but in the chaos of the cat-fights within the New Deal. Characteristic of these feuds is that between Hopkins and Ickes over the handling of relief--Hopkins' FERA and CWA (where the youngsters burdened with social consciences did battle) against PWA where Ickes took a cautious, yet constructive look at the nation's resources). Dean Acheson and Lewis Douglas (the forces of stabilization) are shown as they clashed with Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, a Cornell professor named George Warren, and, eventually, FDR (the forces of inflation). And there are even...
...role of Alice, the producers have cast Margery Glench--a bold step, since she is a grandmother, and known to be at least seventy-six. But she has triumphantly made good their gamble. Her forthcoming movie version of Lolita, to be called I Was a Teenage Nymphet, will be eagerly awaited. For Miss Glench is charming. Miss Glench is beautiful. Miss Glench is neatsie-poo. She sings like a nightingale, and she looks like one too, with the neatest little set of tailfeathers you could ever hope to see. Miss Glench, will you live in sin with...
...college where people come to learn. Students from Maine to California flock to this Athens on the Charles to learn about everything from the battle of Thermopylae to the psycho-dynamic theory of prejudice. But do they come only to learn the T-formation, the squeeze play, and the step-over toe hold...
Ingratitude. Gunshy's suet-headed hero was born one night last fall at a party at the home of Bill Orr, a Warner Bros. TV producer. Recalls Maverick Scriptwriter Marion (See Here, Private) Hargrove: "I said it would be fine if the classic opener was carried a step further -the long street, the shot of the marshal entering. The marshal takes a quick draw and fires and fires and misses." By the end of the evening, Hargrove and Orr had worked out a rough plot, chosen their title. Hargrove picked NBC's Gunsmoke as his target, he says...
...appointments, though a big step in the right direction, cannot be expected to solve all of the Council's problems. The Council is in the precarious position of having to prove its value to the community, if it is to continue as a recognized undergraduate body with a justification for existence. If there is to be a renaissance of the Council it must come this year on the wave of interest generated by the new appointments...