Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Stevenson took painful pains to scotch the idea. Said he: "I am not a candidate; I will not be a candidate, and I don't want the nomination." The tone was familiar. There was once a candidate who said, "I do not dream myself fit for the job-temperamentally, mentally or physically. And I ask therefore that you all abide by my wishes not to nominate me." This was Adlai Stevenson, speaking to his Illinois delegation six days before he accepted his first Democratic presidential nomination...
...Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. set the tone for the four-day debate by sticking to the abundant facts collected by the U.N. Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary (TIME, July 1). He did not shout or become vituperative; he was not "pursuing this subject in a spirit of cold war"; he argued that "we do not condemn the doer but the deed." And the reason the subject was introduced again was that Puppet Premier Janos Kadar has kept none of the glib promises he made after Soviet tanks crushed the revolt last November. Soviet troops have not been...
Nehru's visit to Kashmir was meant to show that all Kashmir is delighted to be occupied by India. At Srinagar, Nehru set India's tone for the U.N. session: "The problem of Kashmir is: What right has Pakistan to be in this state? The answer to this problem is not a plebiscite." So much for Nehru's onetime promise to let the Kashmiris choose for themselves. Or, as Krishna Menon, seconding the boss, put it last week: "Our country has been invaded, and the invasion has to be vacated." Any talk of a U.N. force...
Passion for Sounds. At home Cowell now leads a life far quieter than in his keyboard-slamming "tone-cluster" days of the '20s and early '30s, when a New York newspaper sent a sportswriter to one of his piano recitals and featured it as a fight between "Kid Knabe and Battling Cowell." Apart from teaching stints at Columbia and the New School for Social Research, he spends most of his time in a peeling, starkly furnished yellow clapboard house in Shady, N.Y., surrounded by instruments that testify to his lifelong passion for sounds: Persian drums, Oriental flutes...
...Worlds to Conquer. Fresh from a financial knockout of Promoter James D. Norris, the promise of $255,000 of television money and 45% of the gate safely in his pocket, Ray was as cocky as ever. A blue, short-billed cap perched on his handsome head, a two-tone windbreaker zipped up against the mist from the lake, he smiled benevolently at his subjects. "After 17 years of boxing, all fights are the same," said Sugar with unlimited self-assurance. "The burden of proof is on Basilio. I've got the title, and he's got to come...