Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...promised in Kennedy campaigning. Reading from right to left they ranged from North Carolina Democrat Luther Hodges (Commerce), 62, through Republican Douglas Dillon (Treasury), 51, and Independent Robert McNamara (Defense), 44, through Middle-Reading Abe Ribicoff (Health, Education and Welfare), 50, Labor Lawyer Arthur Goldberg (Labor), 52, to dogmatic Fair Dealer Orville Freeman (Agriculture), 42. The anchor man was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, more diplomat than Democrat, though both. The one that stirred up almost universal misgivings, and considerable anger, was not a question of left or right but the appointment of the President-elect's own brother...
...fine administrator, Freeman took good care of the state's lagging education and welfare programs; in five years he spent $27 million on college buildings, added 1,500 beds to state mental hospitals, increased state aid to local school districts by $50 per pupil. But Fair Dealer Freeman also pushed property taxes to an alltime state high, ran into trouble last year with the normally cooperative legislature when he tried to install pay-as-you-go income taxes. G.O.P. opponents made much of the tax fight and chided Freeman's poor judgment in sending state militia to close...
...Iowa Guard Mark Manders (a married man): "You're doing a job for them, and married guys should receive fair play. We should get halfway decent expense accounts. I receive 87 bucks a month for room and board like all the single players, and it's not enough...
...sentimentalist, but his narration is cluttered with most of the furniture of the sentimental novel-the childhood love who dies of consumption, the mother who starves herself to buy her son's art supplies, and the chance meeting, when all seems darkest, with the count's fair young daughter. Now and then the prose gavottes giddily from its stolid march formation ("Before his sun of life had reached its noonday zenith, he returned to the inscrutable Infinite . . ."), and the author is too fond of teasingly retrieving his hero from the brink of fleshly ruin...
Maritally, U.S. Society abandoned the "double standard" only to adopt the quadruple and sextuple standards. Gentleman Editor Frank (Vanity Fair) Crowninshield epigrammatized the situation: "Married men make very poor husbands." By their second or third generations, most U.S. moneyed clans are marked for either 1) distinction, 2) extinction. Those that survive with distinction, e.g., Lowells, Rockefellers. Guggenheims, treat their money as a public trust and adopt the ethic of responsibility laid down by an early Du Pont: "No privilege exists that is not inseparably bound to a duty." Other socialite families go the way so graphically described by the Philadelphia...