Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birmingham, settled six years after the Civil War, is no repository of genteel Southern tradition and or moderation, has been keyed to violence, whether labor troubles in the 1930s or desegregation in the 1950s. And Birmingham's white country people, teeming in from piney woods to steel mills, view desegregation less as an abstract threat to be fended off by lawyers than as a specific, bread-and-butter threat to jobs, promotions, family security. Says Bull Connor: "If the North keeps trying to cram this thing down our throats, there's going to be bloodshed...
Democratic National Committee members had no sooner gathered in Washington for their first meeting since the 1958 elections than California's Stevensonite Paul Ziffren drew the battle lines. In view of the sweeping national character of the Democratic election victory, said he in effect, the party had better forget its Southern drawl in favor of a Yankee political twang. From that point on, the Democrats spent most of their time skirmishing over the issues of North v. South -with about the usual results...
Many of the eager young politicians of the ruling Istiqlal (Independence) Party view the King (and onetime Sultan) as an old-fashioned survival. Fighting tribesmen in the Rif mountains, in turn, view the Istiqlal with suspicion as "Frenchified city slickers." Inside the Istiqlal itself, a vocal left-of-center minority demands a neutralist foreign policy and denounces "palace politics...
...organizing the successor to the institute's wartime Radiation Laboratory, which had been chiefly responsible for the development of radar, under a new title-the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He became known for a quiet manner, for almost painfully earnest efforts to resolve clashing points of view, and for a broad understanding of how to bridge the shifting boundaries between scientific disciplines...
...years since his death, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock has become the nation's most admired art export. Last week Pollock's passionate, familiar dribblings of paint were on view in a London gallery. Judging by the record attendance as well as the reviews, Jack the Dripper had taken England in hand...