Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue lead story has these words: ". . . what longtime White House reporters deemed the most baffling of all Dwight Eisenhower's presidential weeks." Out of curiosity, we hunted today for any White House reporters (aside from TIME'S man) who had been polled by TIME on what they thought of the President's week. We are sure you are not surprised that we found not a one. We question your right to attribute your own conclusions to "longtime White House reporters" who might not agree with...
...wanted badly to run again for governor, was knocked off his seat by Senate Minority Leader Big Bill Knowland, who, with the support of Deadeye Dick Nixon, overran the Knight riders with big guns and big ambitions. Goodie thereupon picked himself up and allowed as how, on second thought, he would just as soon head East for Bill Knowland's seat in the U.S. Senate...
...shook up indeed. Researcher Gilbert's findings: in school, most Presleyans don't give a twang for getting good grades. Average grade for the Elvis lover is C; for the Booneite, B or better. Thirty percent of ardent rock 'n' rollers admitted that they never thought about the years ahead. Typical comment: "What's the hurry? When the time comes, I guess I'll know what...
...think of Job as the paragon of patience; to others, Job appears so impatient that he dares impiety in his insistence that God explain himself. Many Bible scholars see the Book of Job as an attempt to justify God's ways to men; but to another school of thought, the book's enormous thesis means simply that no justification is possible-only revelation, before which the man who cries for justice and understanding must "lay his hand upon his mouth." In his new verse-play, J.B. (Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), Poet Archibald MacLeish, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner, adds...
Powerful Sanctions. What causes the difference? One theory, notes Yale Sociology Professor Charles R. Snyder in Alcohol and the Jews (Free Press, Yale Center of Alcohol Studies; $5), was advanced by Philosopher Immanuel Kant: he thought that Jews clung to moderation for fear of incurring censure from the society surrounding them. A more convincing theory, Snyder believes, is the Jewish emphasis on food, "so that 'compulsive' eating is more likely to be selected as a means of alleviating psychic tensions [than] addictive drinking." He cites one psychological study showing that Jewish mothers' anxiety about their children...