Word: 1950s
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...unsuccessfully nominated to the Board for International Broadcasting in the same year as Forbes. At the confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1983, Senator Joseph Biden suggested that Ellis had promoted segregation while he was counsel to the North Carolina Advisory Commission on Education in the 1950s. Ellis wrote at the time that the goal of school integration was "racial intermarriage and disappearance of the Negro race by fusing it into the white." Ellis later withdrew his name from consideration...
With a base of dully orange-painted wheels, this work represents a portable American dream, a fantasy on wheels reflecting both the glittery consumer culture and real promise of American aspirations in the 1950s. We know not whether the stars are tumbling downwards or floating upwards; their fanciful arrangement reassures, yet their sharp edges make this fantasy menacing. In "Doorway," Smith shows American aspirations, warts and all--and the artfully clumsy, jerrybuilt support of its metal stars insistently reminds us of their real basis...
...system, influenced by the philosophy of John Stuart Mill, was developed in Europe during the 19th century through the philosophy of John Stuart Mill and used in Cincinatti, Ohio, during the 1950s...
...seemed bent on toppling the shaky but still oppressive Establishment culture. The label never fit Amis comfortably; he was, at most, an Irritable Young Man, more likely to hoot than to rant. His use of humor as a means of subversion proved remarkably effective and durable. Works during the 1950s by other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room at the Top), the plays of John Osborne (Look Back in Anger)--no longer excite much passion or even interest. Lucky Jim is still as fresh, and as capable of reducing a reader...
...regal bearing and caustic wit, but they are interspersed with instances of memory loss, sudden fits of tears and humiliating moments of incontinence. At the close of the act, she suffers a stroke. In the second act, the full character is fleshed out, as B and C reappear in 1950s and 1920s dress, respectively. The dowdyish assistant has become the sophisticated, fiftyish A, full of confidence; the cynical young lawyer is now the naive and romantic 26-year-old A. While a mannequin with an oxygen mask lies in the bed upstage, A herself returns onstage-- no longer senile...