Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Nixon men lacked eagerness for the kill. They simply wanted to do the job bloodlessly, or at least to make sure that Fortas' was the only blood spilled. As the LIFE story was being prepared, Will Wilson, Assistant Attorney General for the criminal division, had personally begun an investigation of the Fortas-Wolfson relationship. His findings were presented to Chief Justice Warren by Attorney General John Mitchell. The next day the Justice Department dispatched agents to quiz Wolfson in his cell at the federal prison camp in Eglin, Fla.; the material they wanted was in hand. Among...
Despite such goings-on, at Cornell Nabokov's course in Modern Fiction (also known as Dirty Lit) became famous. Nabokov detested "oldfashioned human interest criticism." It consists, he once reprovingly wrote oldfashioned, human-interest Critic Edmund Wilson, "of removing the characters from an author's imaginary world to the imaginary, but generally far less plausible, world of the critic, who then proceeds to examine these displaced characters as if they were 'real people.'" He refused to deal in such "dreadful things as trends," or offer traditional chatter about themes and schools of literature. Instead, he performed brilliant, instant autopsies...
...bulky 12-page annual report on this year's results, respectfully submitted by Floyd Wilson, director of such affairs, a table showed that freshman participation reached an 11-year low. For almost every sport, the number of participants had declined so that the total for the three seasons was 1333. This number, however, is greater than the total number of participants because if a persons competes in three sports, for example, he has been included three times in the figure of 1333. From 1958 to 1962, the rates hovered consistently around 1900. Then, for a four-year period, the numbers...
...Labor's chances were poor to begin with, and it seemed almost calculated to rile the very backbenchers who had organized the abortive revolt. Worst of all, it reminded everyone in both parties that back in 1951 a similar charge for dentures and spectacles was enough to provoke Wilson's resignation from the Attlee Labor Cabinet. Anyway, M.P.s wondered, why had Crossman not eased the impact of his announcement by burying it in Jenkins' budget report...
...calling for an immediate withdrawal of Cross-man's rates. Asked one Laborite: "Why should the edentulous and the myopic be expected to correct our balance of payments?" Further, a round-robin letter, sponsored by right-wing Laborites, demanded a secret ballot by Labor M.P.s to determine whether Wilson should remain as Prime Minister and party leader. In a move without precedent, Parliamentary Labor Party Chairman Douglas Houghton warned Wilson that he could push his union reform through Parliament only at the risk of blowing apart the party. At week's end, as Wilson surveyed the extent...