Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S article on the Administration fell just short of stating the real problem that faces President Kennedy. He is surrounded by a great many opinions, all of which can be useful to him. But in the final analysis, he must choose one course and stick to it. All of the failures thus far can be laid to a compromise. Cuba is the shining example. In an effort to pacify both interventionists and non-interventionists, the President settled on a compromise with the disastrous results we have all seen...
...Talk softly and carry a big stick" has been replaced by "Scream loudly and brandish your toothpick!" We like peace as well as anyone, but not at the price of our respect and integrity...
...American attitude toward tipping, a perennial presence which-like wet martinis, shaving, the traffic problem and Christmas cards-can be resisted but can probably never be banished. The Hemingway attitude is what everybody yearns for, but no one finds; the O'Hara attitude is what everybody ought to stick to, although the situation is increasingly complex; and the Marquand menace is what more and more people face. On their summer travels across the U.S. this year, Americans will run into many regional tipping differences. New Yorkers will be overcome when a Southern taxi driver not only thanks them...
...Rabbi Kaplan was so miserable with the hidebound orthodoxy of his first congregation (Manhattan's Kehilath Jeshurun) that he asked the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary to recommend him to a life insurance company as salesman. He was persuaded to stick it out. and instead of insurance, he has been selling his own conception of Judaism ever since. It has been a long pull; Mordecai Kaplan was feted by 600 well-wishers last week on his 80th birthday. And his conception of Judaism has grown into a thriving movement: Reconstructionism...
...once owned for a Sicilian-born boss named Marullo. However, Ethan is haunted by totems of past status. The sleepy Long Island port of New Baytown in which he lives was once virtually the fief of his whaling-captain forebears. He carries one such captain's narwhal stick and lives in his great-grandfather's white shiplap house with its widow's walk. It hurts Ethan when his son pipes up: "I'm going to buy you an automobile so you won't feel so lousy when other people...