Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic leader of Ward One in East Boston, a state representative and state senator, an associate of such lights as "Diamond Jim" Timilty, the Roxbury boss, and Smiling Jim Donovan of the South End. Grandfather Fitzgerald was a U.S. Congressman and twice mayor of Boston. Honey Fitz's theme song was Sweet Adeline, his political creed was based on the sound premise that the strength of textile-making New England depended on everybody's wearing long woolen underwear, and he thought of himself as "the last honest mayor Boston ever...
Last week Electronics Executive Trevor Gardner (Hycon Mfg. Co.), who stalked out as Air Force research chief last year in protest against lagging missile development, suggested a new look at the Oppenheimer case "in light of today's problems." Senate Democrats took up Gardner's theme. Declared Washington's Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson: it would be "entirely proper for the AEC to arrange a rehearing and a reconsideration in light of present circumstances." Chorused Florida's George Smathers: "We must do everything we can to enlist all the brainpower on our side." Said New Mexico...
Miller's lectures will deal with the theme "Man in the Mirror." They are to continue each night at 8 o'clock in Memorial Church until next Friday...
...diplomacy." Every day of every week Moscow rolls out pronouncements about the successes of its experiments with intercontinental ballistic missiles. In the day of the missile, says Russia's Boss Nikita Khrushchev, Europe might become "a veritable cemetery," and the U.S. is "just as vulnerable." His own recurring theme, tossed off at cocktail parties, pounded home by Moscow radio and repeated last week: "Bombers are useless, compared to rockets...
...Author Singer, 53, a columnist on Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward, takes a Manichaean view of God and an ironic view of man. In Joy, the Lord of Hosts finally justifies his stern ways to a modern Job. In The Wife Killer, Author Singer touches on a recurrent theme, that vengeance is God's business, not man's. The book's best tale is the title story about Gimpel. who has seven names in all: 'Imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny and fool. The last name stuck." Gimpel the Fool is the butt...