Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pivot of the turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt...
...camera-faced Amateur Photographer (Nov. 2, 1953), his Mark III Computer (Jan. 23, 1950), which now hangs at Harvard, and his 6-29 Radar Set, now owned by M.I.T. After turning in his current cover (his 166th to be published), TIME editors asked Artzy to play turnabout, portray a mechanized version of Artzybasheff (see above). Said Artzy: "I'd like to psychoanalyze myself, but there isn't time...
...Whatever It Is." Inevitably, there were some observers who found the Supreme Court's quick turnabout in itself an ample reason for criticism. Commented Columnist David Lawrence caustically: "It all adds to the bewilderment of the public, which is being solemnly told that it must always bow to 'the supreme law of the land'-whatever that is today...
...press conference the President got off a warning to G.O.P. foot-draggers. In backing Republican candidates in 1958, he said, he would show a lot more "enthusiasm" for "people that stand with me" than for "those that stand against me." This was a big turnabout from the week before when he had said, in effect, that Old Guard Republicans could snipe at his programs and still be sure of the same kind of boost from him at election time as his loyal supporters...
...Love Comes To Miss Lucy," "Sridni Vashtar," and "A Jungle Graduate" more than the average piece in the collection simply because of their ideas: a seeming love affair that takes an unusual turn, a child who wishes and imagines a murder that comes true, and a quiet story of turnabout. "The Waxwork" deserves less praise for its idea (a night in a waxwork chamber of horrors), but a great deal for its ending, which is led up to gently and tidily. "The Lady On The Grey," an echo of Circe, is a minor but still notable example by a skillful...