Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoids controversial issues, every positive answer is an avowal of cowardice. Alongside these men, however, there will be a larger, undetected group who have simply drifted with the times. No questionnaire is sensitive to such historical changes in the intellectual climate, nor to unconscious modifications in one's self-portrait...
Between these rounds would be hours of palaver with tough, self-confident Nikita Khrushchev...
...first purchase was usually a hat-sometimes a yard wide, sometimes a yard high. But one visitor to San Juan, stepping briskly across the lobby of the Condado Beach Hotel in his floppy straw hat, checkered sports jacket, shorts, suede shoes and sunglasses, had a moment of self-doubt. "Do I look too much like a tourist?" he asked a friend...
Actually, Belafonte remains proudly self-conscious of being a Negro, turned down the part of Porgy in Samuel Goldwyn's production of Porgy and Bess because he felt that Catfish Row presented Negroes in an undignified light. He talks in analytically flavored prose about "Negro situations" and says: "In 1944, with three other Negro sailors and our dates, I was refused a table at the Copacabana. Nine years later I was back there as the headliner. How do you bridge that gap emotionally?" Asked about his second marriage, to a white girl, he says stiffly that the race question...
...onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when...