Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time in an electoral alliance aimed at defeating Charles de Gaulle in the next presidential election (which must be held some time before De Gaulle's current term expires in December 1965). The alliance would not be so naive a collaboration as the disastrous partnership of the 1930s, but the resemblance still appears too close for comfort...
...BING CROSBY SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A special featuring Beverly Hillbilly Buddy Ebsen, who will revert to his original role of 1930s tap dancer...
...short stature (5 ft. 4 in.), expressionless and aloof, Diem seldom stirred from his palace. Though devoted to raising the living standards of the peasants, Diem was ill at ease among the people and uninterested in grass-roots opinion. In the 1930s, Diem had quit as a minister under the French because, he said, "we had to have democratic reforms, or it was clear even then that the Communists would win." In the 1960s, that was the line the U.S. took with Diem, but now he argued that ordinary standards of democracy could not apply in a country fighting...
...automobile tires or feet-in an uncanny anticipation of abstract expressionism. He took up wax crayons to create richly colored tropical scenes: surrealist flowers as big as hybrid corn, rosy hieroglyphs of animal life. These symbolic works, some plainly eruptions from his subconscious, show how, in the 1920s and 1930s, his work grew close to that of Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove in a search for a mystical reunion with natural form...
Even after this unwelcome expense, the News of the World was anxious to keep Churchill, if only for sentimental reasons: back in the 1930s, Randolph's father had been a frequent and fiery contributor to the paper. But Randolph is not very keepable. Only last month, when the World refused to publish an intemperate Churchill attack on Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson-whom Churchill described as "a barefoot dog"-Churchill had to pay a left-wing Labor weekly to carry the column...