Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career Diplomat Philip Wilson Bonsai took on his new post as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba last February full of high hopes and the desire to "get to know Fidel Castro personally." He at first counseled patience with Castro's erratic behavior. But for the past three months, while U.S. citizens were arrested by whim and the $850 million U.S. investment in Cuba was threatened with confiscatory decrees...
...today's more flexible U.S. monetary system; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An intellectual maverick for a banker, courtly Edward Brown, read a balance sheet or James Joyce with equal recall, was a lifelong Democrat who was hauled in by Chicago cops in 1912 while campaigning for Woodrow Wilson, in 1944 heartily endorsed a fourth term for F.D.R...
...nearly twice as long). If I were a better critic I might perhaps be able to verbalize this power. Those who want the most keen, profound, and sometimes conflicting discussions of this play (and the other great tragedies) should turn to the writings of A.C. Bradley and G. Wilson Knight...
Still, it was not all roses for Tatum, even at Maryland. The university was criticized for overemphasizing football; in one year the school handed out 93 scholarships, averaging $944 each, to Tatum's players. When Dr. Wilson Elkins, a Rhodes scholar and onetime University of Texas quarterback, was named president in 1954 and set out to raise Maryland's academic standing, Tatum got itchy feet. In 1956, taking a salary cut from $18,500 to $15,000, Jim Tatum went home to North Carolina. Said he with a rum-Wing chuckle: "I'm going back to North...
...century, when Henry Adams eloquently brooded over the rise of the so-called "robber barons." The anti-intellectualism of that day was the cold contempt of unlettered men (whose scions later gave millions to universities). The result-since the U.S. lacked a conservative tradition -was to fill intellectuals, from Wilson through Roosevelt, with liberal reformist zeal. But the anti-intellectualism of today is no longer contempt for a low-status group. It is more likely fear of a high-status group-"a kind of populist antagonism to any elite." To the now defunct Facts Forum, a Texas mouthpiece...