Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McKenzie is that rarity among academics, the readable expert: his trim prose glitters with aphorisms-and with, for a Catholic priest, unconventional ideas. He has kind words to say for Protestant Demythologizer Rudolf Bultmann, carefully argues that parts of the Gospels are not historical in the modern sense, accepts the validity of form criticism, which assumes that certain sayings of Jesus were created by the early church. Under the circumstances, it is no surprise that the Vatican regards him as a rather disturbing thinker. Besides the normal prepublication censorship to which all priest-scholars must submit, McKenzie has to have...
...Trim, tanned and fit as a Marine Corps drill instructor (he won a Silver Star on Iwo Jima), Lawyer Ickes speaks six languages, has been a Davies lieutenant ever since Davies took him on as general counsel for his American Independent Oil Co. in 1950. The two work together like the barrels of a shotgun-as is only natural. It was F.D.R.'s curmudgeonly Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Raymond's father, who picked Davies to be wartime Deputy Petroleum Coordinator when he was a vice president of Standard Oil of California. In part because Davies had so faithfully...
...notable cut in the Labor-HEW measure last week was the unkindest: it eliminated $31 million sought by the President for his cherished proposal to create a national Teachers Corps to work in high-poverty areas. The move reflected a widespread sentiment in Congress that economies, if any, should trim the new Great Society ventures rather than successful existing programs. Even the President's major congressional victory of the week, the Senate's grudging passage of a minuscule $12 million appropriation to launch a Great Society rent-subsidy program, was achieved only with herculean effort. Part...
...presidency to the Social ists - because the mere idea of two-party competition recalled the civil strife of the 1930s and the subsequent German takeover. But in recent months the two parties had frequently reached deadlock over the People's Party's at tempt to trim funds for state-owned enterprises. Then, after the March election, Socialist Boss Bruno Pittermann presented his party's demands for going along with coalition: continued control of the Interior Ministry and a promise that the coalition arrangement would not be altered for at least one full year...
...members appointed a panel of nine Latin American economists to study the best manner of achieving mutual interdependent development. Trouble was that the "nine wise men" lacked any real power; so a more influential Inter-American Committee (CIAP) was created. Last March in Buenos Aires, the Alliance voted to trim the nine wise men to five, and put them under CIAP as a technical committee. Last week the whole nine-man panel resigned, firing broadsides at the Alliance as they went...