Word: truest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Philippe-Gérard, who wrote the score for the hit movie Rififi, long ago decided that "the truest and most exciting tempo of all might be the human heart." He borrowed a stethoscope, listened to some 50 hearts before he heard just the cardiac sound he wanted: it was thumping in the chest of a 21-year-old Parisian sales girl and model named Nicole Guillenette. What Philippe-Gérard liked about Nicole, he says, is that her heart turned over at a remarkably steady 58 beats to the minute (ideal, in his judgment, for rock...
...help restless kids enjoy the present ("Jam Today"), Pat soberly urges them to act their ages. They can become "useful, happy, well-adjusted individuals," he says, if they make out a check list of "maturity" goals that he uses himself. Its divisions: Spiritual (follow the Bible, "the best, truest-the only"); Social (follow the Golden Rule, or "treat Joe the way you'd like him to treat you"); Mental ("New ideas and theories, new inventions, new concepts, new knowledge itself, come from thinkers. You might think about that for a while"); Physical ("I can remember that Daddy always smelled...
...approaches" in Secretary of State Dulles' speech last week to the California State Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco; but as a summary of U.S. foreign policy, the speech was notable for the centuries-old news that a fighting faith in freedom is positive foreign policy in the truest sense: Excerpts...
Josiah Quincy was a Puritan in the truest Harvard sense, and mixed his education with political gamesmanship. He served at one time (the Beacon Street era) as a reform mayor of Boston, and was subsequently relegated to Washington's House of Representatives. He was a Federalist...
...return for these and other concessions, said Yates, newsmen would have to agree to 1) withhold stories based on his briefings until after each firing, 2) avoid pinpointing firing times in advance, and 3) keep "completely quiet" about some "off-record firings [that] will not be newsworthy in the truest sense but would give aid to the enemy if covered in depth...