Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the TV show The Last Word [Aug. 5]: Is not the popularity of this show a kind of snobbishness in reverse? This excessive concern with grammar and its usage is on the level of whether one should wear this or that color, or use this or that fork, i.e., social insecurity. I have always said "I ain't." The only incorrection is to use the form in other persons: that is, you ain't. Dull people will always speak in a dull manner, whether it is correct...
...Eliot wrote, "of producing the first really handsome historical survey of American art ever published. The raw material for such a book is already ours." By raw material, Eliot meant an impressive collection of 1,069 color plates printed in the Art section since 1951, when TIME began regular use of full-color pages to illustrate the section...
...their fight to cut foreign-aid appropriations. House Democrats put on a cloak that was tailor-made for their uncomfortable posture. As onetime champions of mutual assistance and onetime foes of isolationism, they could not use the well-worn cry-"Why pour good U.S. dollars down foreign ratholes?''-against the principle involved...
Former German scientists, Whizkidden alles, play a major role in U.S. missile development. At the Air Force's Air Research and Development Command in Baltimore, their Schlidenruler influence has inspired ein Jokenskribbler to write an "English-German" glossary in Katzenjammer style "for use with Technical Literature." Among the definitions suitably mimeographed and distributed last week among ARDC...
...Heat. In Milwaukee, arrested on charges of battery and reckless use of firearms after beating his wife and holding four cops at bay for an hour with a .30-. 30 rifle and 12-gauge shotgun, John Manyo, 44, surrendered, pleaded that he is "high strung...