Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Front. The British believe in talking any time anywhere-an attitude that is frequently misunderstood, both by allies, convinced that the British are about to give something away, and by the Russians. hopeful that the British are about to concede something. On the fundamental point of Berlin, Harold Macmillan reassured his partners, he stands as firm as anyone. But not all were convinced...
Later, Board Member Szymczak insisted that he had been misunderstood, declared that he had simply meant to say that the Fed would adopt an even tougher policy except for unemployment. Summed up a Fed spokesman: "Unemployment is a distressing fact. But we feel that we have to develop a sound economy so that we won't fall into a slump again and have even more unemployment." By raising the lending rate to member banks, the Fed showed its confidence that the U.S. economic recovery is steadily picking up steam-and its fear that inflation is once more a major...
...terribly logical ways of classical music" and a yen for the rockier paths of atonality. Composer Norman Dello Joio, 46, is an unabashed romantic with a lucidly lyrical touch and scorn for the "black-noted paper" school of composers, who "feel sorry for themselves because they are misunderstood." Last week Composers Rochberg and Dello Joio each unveiled new works...
...Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (20th Century-Fox). "I," sighs Horace Pennypacker Jr. (Clifton Webb), "will go down in history as the most misunderstood man of my century.'' The century is the 19th, and the remarkable Mr. P., a prominent Pennsylvania manufacturer (Pennypacker's Prime Products), is what was known at the time as a freethinker. He is president of the Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus...
...Tula came the raucous sound of still another blatant Khrushchev threat to Berlin and the peace of the world (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Washington President Eisenhower replied at his press conference with a statement that set down the U.S. position on Berlin with a precision that could not be misunderstood...