Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...democracy's] critics now affirm is that its preferences are inveterately for the inferior . . . Vulgarity enthroned and institutionalized, elbowing everything superior from the highway, this, they tell us, is our irremediable destiny; and the picture-papers of the European Continent are already drawing Uncle Sam with the hog instead of the eagle for his heraldic emblem...
...subtle, complex art of legislative leadership. And he exercised that leadership with statesmanlike responsibility. A Southerner, utterly dependent upon Southern support in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, he painstakingly steered through the Senate this year a civil rights bill guaranteeing the voting rights of Southern Negroes. Instead of trying to use the U-2 imbroglio and the summit collapse to embarrass the Administration in an election year, he spoke out for national unity...
...Democrats chose Idaho's U.S. Senator Frank Church, 35. as their keynote speaker because his boyish good looks promised television a new generation's outlook. True to the promise, handsome Frank Church, the Senate's youngest member, keynoted a change in Democratic policy-of a sort. Instead of the economic gloom that had sustained his elders since he was a toddler, he promised global doom; instead of the old "Don't-Let-'em-Take-It-Away" theme of 1952, he urged "Don't-Let-'em-Spend-It-That-Way" for the prosperous 1960s...
...same problem of style hampering translation is found in Lowell Swortzell's direction. It is conceivable that by a careful introduction of side-splittingly funny bits Mr. Copley's script might have been saved (though I doubt it). Instead Mr. Swortzell has contented himself with moving his actors awkwardly around the stage. When he does choose to introduce a bit he invariably works on the principle that if something is funny once it will be at least twice as funny the second time...
...Steel. The reasons for the disappointment in the economy's performance so far this year seem clear. The post-steel strike inventory buildup that began in the final months of 1959 was expected to last well into the middle of 1960. with the industry operating at near capacity. Instead, previous inventories turned out not to be as low as expected...