Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harvest of convention votes, Harriman also decided moderation had some appeal. Appearing on Meet the Press, he saw desegregation as a matter for the Supreme Court and "not an executive responsibility." Last week in Denver Harriman told newsmen that Oklahoma Governor Raymond Gary's "moderation" and his own "zeal" were the same commodity. Shrugged Ave: a question of semantics. Harriman said further that he "admires what Governor Gary has done in his state." Gary, elected chairman of the Harriman Western Conference by 150 representatives of eleven states attending, explained that some Oklahoma school districts want separate white and Negro...
When this corruption from within the local church has been completed, the Communists move into the second phase to damp down the religious zeal so that gradually the Marxian "economic man" will supplant the Christian...
...photographed gave him a surprise. At the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (posing for Eisie for the sixth time) wrote in the memento book a quotation in Greek from Pindar's Third Pythian Ode: "Dear Soul, do not pursue with too much zeal immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin North in Wisconsin, the controversial architect took one look at Oppenheimer's inscription, snorted and wrote: "Take the science of life in your stride as the mechanics of the affair...
...director of TIME'S international editions, William Stone Honneus spends a good third of his time traveling. Wherever he goes, he takes his two Contax cameras and keeps them clicking. Boston-born Bill Honneus has a mission with his cam eras, and he goes about it with the zeal of a Johnny Appleseed. In each country he visits, he devotes every spare moment to a photographic report of little-known cultural aspects of the land, plus pictures of any new ideas in advertising, merchandising or manufacturing. Among his business friends around the world he always finds interested audiences...
...Diluted Zeal. The Army began heading full tilt toward a blowoff last winter. It was provoked when it learned that Air Force commanders (dressed in Bermuda shorts that the Air Force is introducing as its summer uniform) had staged a remarkable public-relations session in Puerto Rico. Among those on hand was Brigadier General Robert Lee (God Is My Co-Pilot) Scott, fired with zeal in his new job as information director for the Air Force. Scott had prepared a slambang, let-out-all-stops press campaign, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Strategic Air Command and aimed at proving...