Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past vacations, President Eisenhower has always kept in close telephone touch with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. This time he did not talk to Dulles, despite the revolution in Indonesia, the realignment of Arab powers in, the Mideast and the critical problem of U.S.-British mediation between France and Tunisia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On past vacations, Cabinet members have shuttled to and from Washington to see Ike. This time none visited the vacation point...
...British invasion. After the war, he played a leading role in the settlement of the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Late last week, with the quiet assurance of the expert troubleshooter, Murphy conferred briefly with U.N. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold, then set off for London to talk with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Britain's "good offices" representative, Middle East Expert Harold Beeley. Though the French insisted the discussion must be limited to Tunisia, Murphy carried with him a State Department brief, stamped "secret," on Algeria. This week, after he has decided upon...
...Chicago. At a meeting of 700 professors and presidents of U.S. teachers colleges, Paul Woodring (Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools) warned that a whole new mood has settled over the country. Once, said he, "we wanted every child to be happy and contented and to have a feeling of success. We thought this could best be assured by de-emphasizing standards, competition and grades, by broadening the curriculum and by eliminating the distinction between curricular and extracurricular activities . . . Today the mood of the people has changed. There is a new stress on values and standards, on hard...
Probably nowhere west of the BBC's Third Program could the twist of a radio dial bring such a flood of culture and sophisticated political variety. One day on San Francisco's KPFA-FM there was a book review by Bohemian Poet Kenneth Rexroth; the next, a talk by Art Critic Hubert Crehan on "The 'Scandalous' Art of D.H. Lawrence''; the day after, a performance of Paul Claudel's Christophe Colomb in French, with Jean-Louis Barrault, and for the kiddies a dramatization of The Wind in the Willows. Listeners could tune...
Author Birmingham captures the centrifugal chaos of a world spun away from its moral center. His characters are not admirable, but they are believable, even when their actions seem contrived. But their talk sounds less like the dialogues of lost souls in limbo than the callow chatter of the tables down at Mory...