Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President should prove disastrous to neither the nation nor the President, it has severely complicated an already difficult and dangerous situation. At the present time, and for the past few years, there has been an exasperatingly obvious need for Presidential leadership of the strongest and most active type. This nation's foreign relations, military preparedness, economic development, educational levels, and scientific activities need the firm leadership which can be provided only from the highest governmental levels. The President's latest attack will probably make it still more difficult for him to devote even as much time and energy...
After watching the spooning midwesterners every night during Harvard Summer School, Thresky began to long for a little socializing with the better type of birds. Last August 18 he spread his great wings and hoisted himself off his perch. Shaking off a cluster of admiring Cambridge pigeons and starlings, he cruised down to New Haven and propositioned the Yale Record Owl regarding a joint junket through New York. The owl was at first a bit suspicious. "To woo?" she queried...
Vidgren's inner turmoil as a young artist-type chafing at the halters of a narrow secondary school environment and Caesar's Gallic Wars becomes an unbearable torture in the days following the night he finds Miss Olsen, the town tobacco-shop girl, staggering dead drunk through the streets. Despite Vidgren's initial revulsion at the girl and her unsavory reputation, the two quickly become bosom companions, as Vidgren tastes the joy of his first affair...
Marblehead goes to disastrous lengths to prove the point. He whips up a Hollywood-type talent search for "the typical Navyman," whom he personally selects, sight unseen, because he likes the fellow's name: Farragut Jones. It represents the finest in Navy tradition, but from the first word uttered by Boatswain's Mate Jones (Mickey Shaughnessy)-a short, unpleasant sound that is blotted from the sound track by a stentorian beep-it is apparent that he represents one of the worst mistakes a recruiting officer ever made. Lieut. Siegel (Glenn Ford), Marblehead's chief whipping...
Wilson writes not so much with a pen as with the needle of a tattoo artist who wants to inscribe "no" on Britannia's forehead. In After the Show, a well-illusioned young public-school type tries to be chivalrous toward a tawdry young girl, only to find that she scarcely knows what he is getting at; his illusions are shattered when she puts an Elvis Presley record on her gramophone. In More Friend Than Lodger, Wilson plots a triangle, not only of marital infidelity but of social insecurity, involving a stuffy publisher, his disarmingly bitchy wife...