Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the Hong Kong Standard: "This statement, if it genuinely reflects the viewpoint of the Liu-Peng faction, offers an explanation for their drastic turn against Mao. If they believe that the pursuit of Mao's policies would bring about the collapse of Communist rule in China, the need for self-preservation left them no alternative but to rise up against Mao and either force him to renounce his policy or else wrest control of the party from...
...PROBLEM, TRACK STAR'S DILEMMA. Calhoun's dilemma had been posed earlier by the Amateur Athletic Union, which charged him with "attempt to capitalize on athletic fame" and threatened his amateur standing. Cried Producer Roger Gimbel: "This is a terrible thing. The A.A.U. is intruding upon the pursuit of happiness." Gimbel also said the show would sue the A.A.U. if Calhoun lost his standing. Meanwhile, in a barnlike studio in the RCA Building, under a ceiling blanketed with klieg lights. Calhoun and his bride defied the A.A.U., as Floor Manager Mike Graham threw the cues. The congregation included...
...element of pursuit is strong in all of Greene's work. Here, James' mother refuses to tell all in the belief that it is best to let sleeping dogs lie. So James pursues his long-lost uncle and the old widow of a discharged gardener, who have relevant information. But it is really his own past that James is pursuing...
...works, her magnetism draws 3,500 fan letters a week and exerts its tug freely across international borders. At last year's Cannes Film Festival (where she danced with Rita Hayworth's ex-husband, Aly Khan), the international press corps virtually ignored other stars in a tumbling pursuit of the blonde American girl who had then appeared in Europe in only two movies (Pushover, Phffft!). Last week, vacationing in the frequent company of an attentive, wealthy Italian businessman, Mario Bandini, 33, Kim created traffic jams on the Roman stamping ground of Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida...
Skewering the Bourgeois. Suburbanite Odiorne runs through the standard attitudes of the suburban churchgoer's critics-the "genteel disdain" for the quality of his faith, the "elegant reservations" as to the value of his energetic pursuit of bazaars, suppers, plays, baseball teams, bowling leagues, discussion groups. For these critics, says Odiorne: "The Johnny-come-lately, making up the pulpy mass of this return to religion it seems, has several basic flaws which make him offensive to the intellectual bourbons of the cloth," i.e., his preoccupation with getting ahead in the world, conforming to his neighbors and raising his children...