Word: unpopularity
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Social Position: Managed to make her mark in the circles in which she wandered, always a little frail and aloof, making herself liked by the people she wanted to be liked by, and often unpopular with the rest. Friend of writers and critics like Cyril (Enemies of Promise) Connolly and Peter Quennell, able to talk to them in their own jargon, yet without convincing anyone of her profundity. As flip, smartly turned out professional journalist, got to know Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton (who lent her a cottage on his Wiltshire grounds). Although needing no introduction to high society...
...Michigan, Democratic Senator Blair Moody and Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams have tenuous holds on their jobs. Moody was appointed by Williams to fill the seat vacated by the death of the late great Arthur Vandenberg; Williams himself was elected by a bare margin. Unpopular outside Detroit, Moody is supported by the unions, but labor leaders are frequently unable to swing the Detroit election. This week, Republicans faced Moody with a tough opponent: Congressman Charles E. Potter, a legless war veteran who has the support of Michigan industrialists, is a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Williams...
...they are determined not to fall into another fight with a powerful and predatory next-door neighbor 66 times their size (in area, Finland is the sixth largest country in Europe; in population it is the third smallest). Under popular, 81-year-old President Juho Kusti Paasikivi and able, unpopular Agrarian Premier Urho Kekkonen, the Finns have learned to walk the nerve-racking path of independence like tight-rope walkers...
...rebellion against Joe Grundy. The Pennsylvania county leaders were disgruntled at the Grundy regime. The P.M.A. expected them to get out the vote, but often ignored their requests at the council table. The county leaders, in touch with the people, thought that they should be consulted on unpopular measures that might hurt their organization. Grundy's P.M.A. never worried much about popularity...
...Thanks to the unpopular measures that have already been taken by the Chancellor, we have reached in the last six months a position of equipoise. Our head is above water, but it is not enough to float. We have to swim . . . and we have to swim against the stream. At the moment, we can say we are holding our own . . . but we cannot be satisfied with that. We cannot live from hand to mouth and from month to month in this world of change and turmoil. We must create by long and steady systems of trade and exchange throughout...