Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Campaign Executive Director Hy Raskin, "was when he took off a weekend in Atlantic City. And then all he did was to sit on someone's front porch and talk politics"). He has never married. He blends a good sense of practical politics with a fairly idealistic view of "good government." Typical Finneganisms: "Good government is good politics." "There should be a reward for those who make a consistent effort for the party. When men have an ability in their jobs and also are a potent political force and are really interested in it, why shouldn...
...Card Game." Nasser's own view of himself is as a man of destiny, fitted to play a role in the Arab world "wandering aimlessly in search of a hero" (see box). "We are in a position to ruin the West if we set to work and stop talking," he has said...
...overall, the networks did a fascinating job of hustling televiewers inside their biggest studio. To make things easier, they superimposed arrows and circles on the screen to single out key figures. NBC commentators loomed into view in the shape of triangles, sometimes peeped through keyholes. But as ABC's debearded (for TV) John Vandercook mused: "Sometimes I think we suffer from embarrassment of riches...
...nuns of Stanbrook Abbey and in particular to the prayers of his dear Sister Laurentia for Bernard Shaw." They argued bitterly over it by mail. "You are the most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think you are a better Catholic than I, but my view of the Bible is the view of the Fathers of the Church; and yours is that of a Belfast Protestant to whom the Bible is a fetish . . . But you must go on praying for me, however surprising the results...
Pritchett criticism resembles an elaborately woven square of cloth which, held up at one end, hangs together all of a piece. The Pritchett short story is just the opposite. It exists (as modern life does, in Pritchett's view) "in fragments rather than as solid mass," and exults in bursts of fire, sharp changes of tempo, explosions of mood. And it is usually extremely cheerful, regardless of what it is about-as if the characters, like their author, were glad to escape from the stiffer world of Pritchett criticism...