Word: 1950s
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...sketch of Hemingway hangs opposite her desk.A friend of her father's dashed it off in a hotelbar in the Spain in the 1950s. Hemingway washaving a drink. He took it over to have it signed.On a piece of hotel stationery a florid hand haswritten "From the Old Man." Once a spontaneousact, it now serves to motivate...
...1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Harvard hadextraordinarily close ties to Fernald, whereMedical School and School of Public Healthstudents and professors held lectures, workshopsand demonstrations, according to 1959 reportdisclosed in The Crimson Wednesday...
What are the methods the pro-life activists use in advancing their cause? The most common ones are peaceful marches, prayer meetings and candlelight vigils--the exact same methods used by the civil rights movement of the 1950s...
...dolce vita" derived mainly from Fellini's personal impressions of the Via Veneto, Rome's street of outdoor cafes and nightclubs, which had become by the late 1950s an international hangout for the trendy. When the film first opened in 1960, it was extremely controversial, a fact which contributed greatly to its financial success. The Italian clergy was outraged by "La dolce vita." Because Catholics saw "La dolce vita" as irreligious, the film acquired a reputation as a scandalous celebration of the very decadence which it seems to denounce. Ironically, in response to "La dolce vita", the Via Veneto attempted...
This film did much to confirm Fellini's reputation when it was released. Even after two of his film received Oscars for Best Foreign Film in the 1950s, Fellini still had a difficult time finding producers for his work. After the enormous success of "La dolce vita", the winner of the Golden Palm of Cannes in 1960, Fellini received his own film company as a bonus from Angelo Rizzoli, who financed "La dolce vita...