Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than four decades he has been one of the foremost journalists in the world. In China during World War II and the Communist upheaval of the 1940s, he survived an early baptism of fire as a combat correspondent. In the U.S. he covered six presidential elections and fashioned his impressions into the extraordinary The Making of the President series. But two years ago, at 61, Theodore H. White had nagging doubts about his work. He felt he should have grappled with the deeper meanings of all he had seen and reported, the groundswells of history that changed the world...
...life of an artist, says Robert De Niro, is "a very show-bizzy thing. You're up and you're down." The speaker is not the actor but his father, who studied with Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers and "flirted with abstract expressionism briefly in the 1940s." Since then, he has had periodic shows of his loosely drawn portraits and landscapes somewhat reminiscent of Matisse. At a retrospective exhibition of his father's work at Los Angeles' Stuart David Galleries, De Niro Jr. was on hand for the opening. "I like my father's paintings...
...initials could as well stand for razzmatazz-to-wacky-produced no bombshells, but a few Roman candles, and squibs aplenty. It also offered something for just about everyone. The influences, as Le Figaro's Hélène de Turckheim noted, could be traced to "the 1940s, the 1950s, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Star Wars, Close Encounters, the army, the church and even the crowning of Bangui's Emperor Bokassa...
...Napalm is a chemical agent developed by U.S. scientists in the 1940s. When added to gasoline it forms a gel which can be dispersed over a wide area by a bomb. The gel sticks to whatever it hits until it slowly consumes itself. It causes fourth degree burns...
DISCOVERY. Designed to eliminate the surprise element (trial by ambush) in civil suits, discovery has been greatly expanded since the 1940s. It allows a party to delay endlessly by demanding often absurdly peripheral information "relating to" the lawsuit. The wear-'em-down philosophy was articulated by Cravath, Swaine & Moore Senior Partner Bruce Bromley in a speech before an appreciative audience of Stanford law students 20 years ago: "I was born, I think, to be a protractor ... I could take the simplest antitrust case and protract it for the defense almost to infinity ... [One case] lasted 14 years ... Despite...