Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homespun Web. Against this grimly mirthful background, plodding, modest Warren Shaw ("Nobody's a worse speaker than I am") announced against Hall, despite the tradition that Kansas nominates its Republican governors for a second term. With tradition and the labor vote behind him, Fred Hall was far from worried. But labor had its mind mostly on the Democratic primary (see below), hardly at all on Hall: industrial Sedgwick County (Wichita) gave Shaw 3,500 more votes than Hall, Shawnee County (Topeka) went to Shaw by 3,200. The final unofficial vote: Shaw 156,300, Hall...
...summed up the why of the defeat: "He wanted to play every instrument in the band and lead it too." Countered Fred Hall: "I am the perfect example of the Republican who followed the Eisenhower orthodoxy right down the line, against the Old Guard, and got caught in the web." Like many another Hall pronouncement, this smacked of oversimplification. Most Kansans agreed that the web was made largely of arrogance, and Fred Hall had spun it himself...
...probing into intra-family relationships--the whole complex of loves, tensions and conflicts operating within a family. Salesman was not a play about Willy Loman, but about the Loman family. Similarly now, we are viewing, from our seats on Brooklyn Bridge, not the life of Eddie, but the web of personal interactions in the Carbone household: husband and wife, aunt and niece, boy and girl, girl and guardian, brother and brother, cousin and cousin, landlord and tenant, illiterate manual laborer and cultured lawyer, and so on. And if this probing embarrasses the spectators by forcing them to associate what they...
...tale that the U.S. State Department (which had got the text from an undivulged source) debated on the value of releasing it, thinking that many readers might be moved to accept Khrushchev's picture of himself and other top Stalin aides as innocent men caught up in a web of terror against which there was no possible protest. What finally decided the release of the text was the fact that the speech revealed such a sordid picture of Communist intrigue that it could not but have a demoralizing effect on Communist Parties outside the Soviet Union. As it turned...
...implying that Dick is really the victim of a Mafia-like web of malevolent psychoanalysts, Author Wagner makes his tragedy eerily implausible and weakens his legitimate point that the analyst, when judged by his somewhat dubious curative results, has been granted too much authority and credence at some levels of 20th century life. The book's occasional hemlock-bitter jibes at "Fraudism" may even tempt some blither-spirited novelist to give psychoanalysis what it often begs for, a full hypodermic of spoof juice...