Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hammond's father was President Neil L. Rudenstine's roommate as a Rhodes scholar in the mid-1950s...
...pinstripes of Frank Stella's black paintings in 1959, and his deliberateness, making the picture up in advance instead of discovering it in the act of painting, lies behind much process art. As Bruce Nauman put it, "Johns was the first artist"--well, in New York in the 1950s, anyway--"to put some intellectual distance between himself and his physical activity of making paintings." His work has always spoken of planning, not spontaneity; of the recycled image (his own included), not the unwilled apparition...
Money and power, not love and marriage, are the dominant themes of this brightly written book. The bottom line is that Pamela Churchill Harriman knew how to get money but not how to keep it. In the 1950s she made a virtue of her extravagance. "My life has given me a unique opportunity to shop," she once told a fashion reporter. Forty years later, following a decade of big spending and bad investments, she was selling off prime assets from the Harriman estate to meet expenses. Her biggest fear, notes one of Bedell Smith's many loquacious sources, was that...
...statement is unlikely to influence the curriculum of Catholic schools, where evolution has been taught since the 1950s. Indeed, reading the entire Bible literally has not been a dominant practice among Catholics through much of the 20th century. Asked about the Pope's statement, Father Peter Stravinskas, editor of the 1991 Catholic Encyclopedia, said, "It's essentially what Augustine was writing. He tells us that we should not interpret Genesis literally, and that it is poetic and theological language...
Barile, a feisty 78-year-old, figures that if Bob Dole can run, so can he. Unlike the former Senate majority leader, however, this retired newspaper printer can cite an unsuccessful run for Fresno freeholder in the 1950s as his only political credential. Nevertheless, Barile says he is fed up with the Republicans. He calls George Radanovich a "nice fella" but charges his well-known opponent with blindly following Newt Gingrich: something Barile can be counted...