Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bruised and bruising subject of Algeria, the diehards of the French right are emotional, vociferous and arrogant; they have branded every Premier who talked of compromise with the name of "traitor" and threatened his destruction. But while their followers shouted and threatened publicly, some top conservative leaders have privately reached quite different conclusions. Last week one of the most influential talked with a realistic candor that would have shocked his noisy partisans. Said he: "Personally I have long been convinced that the time of colonialism is dead. You can't stand in the way of people who want...
...flashy neighbors on newsstand racks. But this week the second issue of a modest quarterly named Space Journal is selling like cheesecake. As an unofficial byproduct of the Jupiter-designing experts at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Ala., the magazine treats its out-of-this-world subject in down-to-earth language. Says one Space Journalist : "The American people have a hunger for space information, and we're going to keep them well...
...Carolina), authority on state and federal constitutional law, the only man in this century whose appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate; of a heart attack; in Washington. In 1930, after his nomination to the court by President Hoover, scholarly, genial Judge Parker became the subject of a debate triggered mainly by the American Federation of Labor, because of an opinion he had written sustaining a "yellow-dog" contract (wherein new employees promise their employers in writing that they will not join a union). Parker explained that he was merely "following the law as laid down...
...remote resemblance to the William Faulkner tales on which it is based (The Hamlet, Barn Burning). The Hamlet, in which Author Faulkner aired the moral midden of Yoknapatawpha County in an ecstasy of disgust, is particularly strong stuff, and Producer Jerry Wald clearly had to clean up his subject for the screen. In the process, unfortunately, he converted Faulkner's county into a community almost as corny as Al Capp's Dogpatch, and reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh ham and pot likkah. And he replaced the emotional ingredients...
Edgar Hoover, who is not and never has been a member of the Communist Party, undoubtedly knows more details about the subject than anyone except those who have been and are not. From the Communist Manifesto to the latest hindsights of a lapsed Marxist, the literature of Communism has largely been professional and confessional, written by insiders. The FBI chief's book belongs to a smaller but useful class of books by those who, concerned with the suppression of Communism, look at it from the outside. Hoover has written a primer-in a sense a how-to-do-them...