Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Similarly, the factory workers--performing a operation on a big machine he doesn't understand, unaware of the manufacturing as a whole--is indifferent about his job. work, says Goodman, is unchallenging, , and seemingly unimportant. So worker is simply putting in time for the . The job holds no inherent interest...
Repeatedly Wednesday night, Sahl alluded to remarks that he hadn't been able to use on television; he repeated them to the Symphony Hall audience, as though here were people who could be expected to understand and appreciate comments the television audience would resent. And indeed he had every right to expect it, for the lines were really quite tame, had no particular punch, reflected indeed the thoughts of most run-of-the-mill liberals in the country today. What would have been interesting to hear are the remarks he doubtless makes in small groups, at parties, perhaps to himself...
...anecdote about a rabbi who must punish a little boy who scribbled a swastika on the Sunday School wall. Mirsky's prose is full of fire and yet maintains a reserved dignity. Only once does the writing seem to go out of control, for I don't understand the important passage explaining the rabbi's cry of "Shkootzim, shkootzim" at the children who had perpetrated the evil deed...
...talking recession cures ("Understand, I do not believe we are going into a recession"), Nixon dealt from basic Republican philosophy, insisting that tax reform and not "massive federal spending programs" would be necessary to stimulate "the private sector" of the economy. In the normal course of the economy, however, "we should be under no illusions whatever about what the responsibilities of the American people will be in the '60s. Our expenditures for defense . . . for mutual security . . . for economic assistance and technical assistance are not going to get less . . . They are going to be greater. I think...
...Guinea, who still wistfully hoped to propel him back to power. Looking dour and wan, he declaimed his standard piece: the Soviet Union was the only nation interested in peace; he had asked the U.S. for help but was told to get it from the U.N. "I did not understand this comedy," he cried. But now everything was clear: the U.S. wanted a monopoly on Katanga's uranium, and big American interests wanted to extend their concessions to exploit Congolese raw materials.* Ghana's representatives cried "hear, hear." But when it was all over. Lumumba went forlornly home...