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...Bang & Whimper. The last hours of debate made the bill sound like a calamity. Shuddered Virginia's Democratic Harry Byrd: "I have never known such a determined effort to enact punitive legislation, most of which was unconstitutional and offensive to the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Moment of Victory | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...line [Feb. 8] about feeling as Edison would have if they had rejected the electric light was a joke,Son, and not a whimper. TIME also erred in stating that NBC felt I was not the proper moderator for "Meeting of Minds." NBC offered me 30 minutes elsewhere in the week to broadcast the segment. I rejected the offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Glass Menagerie has to offer, and the only measure of the success of any production lies in how well it projects these qualities. The audience at Saturday's performance found a good deal of humor in it, but for the most part it made me want to whimper like a whipped dog at the unmeaning cruelty with which people live with one another. This is not my favorite reaction to a play; I do not unreservedly enjoy the sensation of clenching my fingernails into my palms to steel myself against a crescendo of misery. It would be easy to find...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Glass Menagerie | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess or to break oo:. After nine tedious weeks, Geneva was ending not with a bang, not with a whimper, but merely in a blur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: The Breakoff | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...sweetie," we whimper, "most of the Boston stuff seems eventually to come to the U.T." In reply the ladies then go into a grim, tooth-grinding pout, and usually get their...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Let Them Eat Popcorn | 4/28/1959 | See Source »

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