Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fall Partisan Review has arrived, and with it Dwight MacDonald's second article on Masscult and Midcult. This is a theme dear to Mr. MacDonald's heart (as those who heard him speak in Harvard Hall last year will remember); it has the built-in advantage of immediately alienating a certain number of ineffectuals and of subtly flattering the educated majority; thus it is considered controversial. It also permits Mr. MacDonald to indulge in one of his greatest pleasures: insulting Archibald MacLeish...
...supporters, he realized that he was in trouble. While Nixon lieutenants kept up the spirits of 3,000 workers gathered in the ballroom below for a "Nixon-Lodge victory night," Nixon nibbled on sandwiches, sipped champagne. His personal agony was shared with only a few; he did not speak to his mother and family gathered in another suite, or to Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge, who himself was getting the bad news at a Republican victory rally in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel...
...team's successes this year was an unbroken series of outstanding performances by Mark Mullin. His second in the Big Three meet this year, step-for-step duel and eventual victory over Dartmouth's Tom Laris, and battle over most of the Heps with Brown's victorious Bobby Lowe speak for themselves...
...shattered party then adjourned its fight to Parliament, where Unilateralist Sydney Silverman warned Rab Butler, Conservative House leader, that Gaitskell "doesn't speak for his party in defense matters." Happily, Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already short from the intraparty fight, leftist Labor M.P.s exploded last week when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the U.S. to use the port of Holy Loch on Scotland's Firth of Clyde as a base for Polaris submarines. In describing the agreement, Macmillan stretched...
Never since he returned to office nearly 2½ years ago had the necessity to speak rested so heavily upon...