Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest atrocity from behind the Grits and Gravy Curtain moves me to suggest that Mississippi, Georgia and Unoccupied Florida secede from the Union forthwith, all white Deep Southerners to receive free passage to another Union more in line with their philosophy-that of South Africa. To fill this welcome vacuum, let us then admit Hawaii and Alaska to statehood. I am sure that they would contribute more to the glory of the U.S. than treacly novels, Neanderthal politicians and made-to-measure propaganda for the Soviet Union...
...Maupassant wrote "daring" stories in a society that still preserved the bourgeois decencies. Today, his people-as seen with the sharp focus of a man who wears his reading glasses because he dines alone-no longer seem as real as realism would suggest. His world, as "simple and faithless as a smile and a shake of the hand," no longer exists. The world of 1955, distressed by its own faithlessness, may long for something more than the hard sneer of a peasant who has made good in the city. But the man had power and style, and his best stories...
Work Harder. After watching portly A. V. Vlasov, head of the Soviet Academy of Architecture, struggle good-naturedly with a tippety butterfly chair, the delegates were shown by pretty, pink-clad hostesses around a futuristic pink kitchen. The Russians were unimpressed. Noting a built-in radio, Kozuilia ventured to suggest that housewives might be distracted and let the lunch burn. When he saw a built-in cosmetics drawer near the sink, he cracked: "And do you also sleep in the kitchen?" Again a builder explained: "You'd be surprised how this helps sell houses." Said Kozuilia...
...million votes counted at week's end, the totals-all highly unofficial-still put the Nationalists on top with 8,001,750 votes. But the Communists were in fourth place, while the strictly anti-Communist Moslem parties, the Masjumi and the Moslem Teachers, had enough between them to suggest a slight majority for Indonesia's anti-Communist parties. Sastroamidjojo still seemed likely to win the premiership, but the anti-Communist bloc had a good chance of playing a role in his Cabinet and his policies...
...wonder what he is thinking about." After that, nothing matters anyhow. Jane Russell keeps trying to give Scott Brady, her agent, the other 90% of her; and both young women sing, as nowadays most lady vocalists do, in a peculiarly unpleasant morning voice. The hoarseness is apparently intended to suggest that the girls have taken large doses of sin in their time. In this case, it sounds more as if they had taken small ones of Sterno...