Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal of groping with, of course, a maximum of philosophical and theoretical support for this blind exploring. But nowhere, try as Schlesinger may to produce one, does a coherent body of thought emerge to tie up the loose ends of the New Deal. There seems substantial validity in the view Edmund Wilson took of the New Deal in 1934: "The work which the New Deal is attempting--the stocktaking of the country's resources, the inquiry into the condition of the people and the development of some equitable plan for enabling the people at large to get the benefit...
...meeting explaining that "our silence'' meant, not agreement with the anticolonial remarks, but only a "desire to preserve harmony." When Guinea, the only French territory to vote non to De Gaulle, proposed a resolution asking for special consideration from the U.N. in view of its "desertion" by France, the French merely stared ahead in silence, did not even bother to vote against the resolution. Africa's independent nations were clearly in the saddle, and the representatives of the European powers were resigned to the fact...
...entries ranged from Irving Berlin's "best wishes" and signature on an other wise white page (price: $500) to a fifth-of-a-page, rear-end view of Actress Shirley MacLaine...
...Ruby does most of her reporting from her desk, gets many of her leads from her radio, which blares steadily in competition with a tape recorder, a television set, and a green parrot, all in the same room. Last week, as Fidel Castro's triumphant procession passed within view of her office, she emerged for her first look at the rebel chieftain. Castro had already paid his respects to her; last November he sent a runner 600 miles with a mountain orchid for the Timeswoman in Havana. Placid and permanent in Cuba's impermanent atmosphere, R. Hart Phillips...
...lilac bushes saved the country from disaster. In discussing the New Deal's opponents, Schlesinger stresses their rages and follies. Generally. F.D.R.'s adversaries are made to seem like those stubborn mules who refused to plow the cottonfields under; there is no suggestion that in the long view of history the mules may possibly have had a point...