Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chapman said that he proposes to spread "Rocky and Victory" literature, to organize "Rallies for Rockefeller" wherever the governor speaks, and to plan campaigns in state primaries and G.O.P. state conventions. The organization will also take straw polls, sponsor speeches by prominent Rockefeller supporters, advertise the "Rockefeller Record," and carry out a campaign of letters to editors...
...Most Fatal Sin." Suicide was not always frowned on; in eight instances in the Bible*suicide is not mentioned in condemnation, and the ancients in the Hellenic times tended to look upon the power to take one's own life as an inalienable privilege. But St. Thomas Aquinas summed up the reason for the Roman Catholic Church's severity toward suicide when he wrote: "[It] is the most fatal of sins, because it cannot be repented of." Protestantism was even harder on suicides than Catholicism...
...wrong he would say it was. Of course there are always exceptions. But in general, Christians-who are a minority in this country at present-would say no man or woman had the right to terminate life entrusted to him by God. There is also a feeling that to take one's own life when things are difficult is rather like running away in battle. On the other hand psychologists have made us more tolerant than we used to be ... To punish by fine or imprisonment someone who found life intolerable and tried to end it is ridiculous...
...that make it sound like a prize begonia. "America is a cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from a new one-a mammoth work which Mailer says will probably take ten years to write and may be unprintable. Judging from...
Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The bad guys take potshots at The Feathered Doll from a carnival...