Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evanses also suggest lightly that the purity once associated with a "Boston accent" might be traced to the assumption "that the Cabots, in speaking to God, would naturally employ an impeccable diction." They point out that the situation described by the hackneyed "eternal triangle" is "scarcely more unendurable than the phrase," and take special pains to blister John Foster Dulles for his "journalese": "It was not some petty, pretentious scribbler who invented 'massive retaliation' and 'agonizing reappraisal' or spoke of 'unleashing' Chiang Kai-shek...
...oldest name in New Mexico newspapering is borne proudly by El Crepús-culo de la Libertad (The Dawn of. Liberty), a twelve-page weekly in Taos (pop. 1,815), whose delirious typography and dissonant trio of editorial voices more often suggest the dawn of anarchy. Fondly known to its 2,505 subscribers as "El Creeps," the paper was started in 1835 by a Mexican priest. Today it still has an unusual publisher-editor: wealthy Bostonian Edward Clark Cabot...
...Biology of the Hair Follicle and the Growth of Hair, 270 physicians and other scientists from three continents gathered in London last week, debated highly technical questions of how and why hair grows -and, in the aging male, so often falls out. None of the experts could suggest any preventive or cure for baldness, but by the end of the conference they had practically convinced themselves that there is really no problem. Summed up the University of Chicago's Dr. Stephen Rothman: "I do not know of a single instance where a man's social happiness or professional...
...theatre has two peculiar characteristics," he continued. "First? the big shots have little real knowledge of theatre. Second? everybody, no matter how little experience he's had, can suggest how to rewrite a play; but few people can or will tell the director or producer what to do once casting is completed...
Bleak Theme. Marguerite Yourcenar has set down the story of the doomed Baltic civilization in a fable so barely told (in translation from the French) as to suggest basic English. It suits her bare, bleak theme. Her narrator is Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers...