Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Progress & Freedom. Indian intellectuals were for a long time acutely sensitive to the dangers of economic colonialism. But some among them took another look at the way the young U.S. had developed after winning its freedom. After all, it took big injections of British and European capital during the 19th century to build the railroads that spanned the North American continent. But this foreign capital in no way diminished U.S. independence. And it was attracted to the U.S. in part by the assurance that lawful debts would be repaid and property would not be seized. In the same way, India...
...Rico's commonwealth status and the Popular Democratic Party's unannounced candidate for a fourth term. Trying to counter the presidential boost for Ferré, Muñoz declared that Eisenhower on his visit had "recognized the great value of commonwealth and the great economic and social progress registered under the present government of Puerto Rico." Some Muñoz followers, taking a different tack, grumped that Ike's friendliness toward Ferré amounted to interference in Puerto Rican politics. Replied Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Can you imagine the President being against a recognized candidate...
...DESCRIBE CARYL CHESSMAN AS A "SELF-ADMITTED HARDENED CRIMINAL" BUT DO NOT CITE THE SOLID EVIDENCE OF HIS CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS TOWARD REHABILITATION AND HIS CONTRITION FOR WHATEVER CRIMES HE HAS COMMITTED...
...That Lady? (Columbia) gives the first sly wink of its camera eye in a Columbia University chemistry lab, where an arcane experiment is in progress: Assistant Professor Tony Curtis is kissing a girl student. An unstable element, his wife, Janet Leigh, enters the lab and explodes. Janet promptly informs the errant Tony that he has defiled their five-year marriage and that she is heading for Reno to be decontaminated. Poor Tony begs his old pal, Dean Martin, a TV writer, to cook up an alibi to placate Janet. Dean's idea: Tony is really an undercover...
...under fire, as he has done before, and slink off to accept a college presidency? In providing the unimportant answer to this unimportant question, Novelist Hawley shows that he has refined his prose technique since Executive Suite and Cash McCall; the tedium of his narrative's implacable forward progress is now unrelieved by any fresh thought or phrase, or even by a friendly old cliché. The business world is a valid and fascinating locale for fiction, and Lincoln Lord spouting ghostwritten eloquence is a recognizable type. But in telling his story without really analyzing him, Hawley does...