Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last week the political heirs of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk-Republicans and Democrats alike-have maintained a tacit agreement to stick by their leader's founding dictum: in modern Turkey "state and religion must be separate." Then dapper, driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct...
With its striding rages and vivid madness, Welles's Lear scarcely buttressed the widespread belief that the part is unactable; even with an injured ankle, Welles was never a mere "old gentleman tottering about with a walking stick." But both as actor and director, Welles slighted Lear's character and Lear's significance, did far too little with Shakespeare's poetry. Any number of moments lacked their sovereign power to move-and not least from scanting Shakespeare's sovereign powers of language...
...kids were crowded around, hoping he would autograph the program that said "United States Olympic Team," or asking him for his stick, or perhaps just wanting to look at him and watch him talk...
...City, he came to reckon his personal fortune at more than $2,000,000, his homes at four (in Jersey City, on Manhattan's Park Avenue, on Miami's Biscayne Bay and on the Jersey coast at Deal). He said, "I am the law," and made it stick for more than 30 years. In a sense he performed a service: he helped throw true light on the nature of the U.S. political boss...
...their reports. They noted and disapproved a "greed for profit." ("A unique means of making a profit is shown by Jack Graham, who blew up his mother and a plane for the insurance.") They rapped U.S. TV for showing too many commercials ("Only a stone sphinx could stick to one of these performances to the very end"). But they gave readers of Pravda, Izvestia and other leading Soviet journals the friendliest, most appreciative view of the U.S. since the wartime alliance. Russians, long accustomed to trite fictions about hungry armies of U.S. unemployed, read such items...