Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Curley was around," Professor Charles Cherington recalls,, "he told the stories." And as Curley himself once remarked, "It isn't what a politician says but what he whispsrs that gives a slight clue to what he may be thinking." Thus, an attempt to give even so modest an account of Curley as his Harvard History is infected with compounds of uncertainty. But it has its compensations. To go from the faded pages of ancient Crimsons or the often jaundiced accounts of old adversaries to Curley's own recollections is to proceed from Arctic regions to land of balmy, ever...
Criticizing Curley is nothing new for Lyons, who has also mentioned the divisive, racial character of his appeal that is less prominent now than it was twenty-two years ago. He than wrote in The Nation, "The intolerance of the Irish politician in Boston for any sharing of politician in Boston for any sharing of political power or political liberties can be compared only to that of the early church magistrates of New England. Curley's regime is frankly racial beyond anything known else-where in America...
...Nixon has said more unkind things about the Democrats than any other politician. MRS. J. W. BOWMAN Winston Salem...
...Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy, who can also be seen fishing in cinematically troubled waters in The Old Man and the Sea, is far more at home playing a curly-haired, Curley-like Irish politician...
Pretend, for a moment, that you are about forty-four years old, married and with a family, a pillar of your community ("active in community affairs, but not a 'politician',"), and On Your Way Up in a rather large organization...