Word: lively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closest adviser, last week told why he was quitting the Government. The lyrics were familiar, but some of the accompaniment was new. Though Congress had recently raised his salary as presidential counsel from $12,000 to $20,000 a year, Clifford insisted that he just couldn't live on his salary and raise a family (three daughters...
...first blush, it was hard to believe that there could be much wrong with life in Richland, Wash., the Atomic Energy Commission's model residential city for the big Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from them, Government planning had methodically channeled the city's burgeoning population into neatly curving rows of comfortable frame houses. Sputtering Government sprinklers had drawn green grass from the arid Columbia River basin in defiance of the gritty desert winds from the Horse Heaven Hills...
Puny on the Plain. Four centuries after the Spanish conquest, perhaps four out of seven million Peruvians still live in the Andes, speak the Quechua and Aymara of the Incas, play their mournful five-noted pipes of Pan and on festive occasions get falling drunk on tinka, a poisonous potion of cane alcohol, nicotine and cocaine. But the pressure for land has increased, and the ancient farming ayllus (communes) are disappearing. More & more, Andean man has hired out to haciendas or mines, or moved to coastal cities. When he descends to the Pacific, it becomes his turn to undergo...
...eyed Fred Allen, taking a year's vacation from radio, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby how it feels to be an "unemployed actor": "It's wonderful, this freedom. You can live on the money you save on aspirin. The only trouble is, I keep thinking of jokes and I don't know what to do with them." As for TV, Allen found it "too graphic. In radio, even a moron could visualize things his way; an intelligent man, his way. It was a custom-made suit. Television is a ready-made suit. Everyone...
Such proceedings suggest that the individual who voluntarily offers himself as a guinea pig for the social science pollster be precisely advised, at all times, of the risk he assumes. All realistic persons know that we live in an age of Loyalty Commissions and Congressional Investigations: letter carriers are fired for subscribing to "New Masses" and Navy Yard workers are dismissed for possessing Howard Fast's "Freedom Road." Any "scientist" who would investigate people's political, social, sexual, or religious attitudes and values owes a duty to the privacy and dignity of the people he questions. That duty...