Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would not have made art history if it had not been for a rebellious group of impressionist painters who wanted to get more light and air into their work and to reach a larger public. With painters such as Manet, Bonnard, Villon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen and Forain doing the ad-cum-art work, the posters rapidly became collectors' items and more valuable than the products advertised...
...first Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911), the Supreme Court's "Great Dissenter" (316 dissents in 33 years). But Harlan's opposition to Court trends stems, in fact, from his belief that a judicial decision must be based on "uniformly applied legal principle, not on ad hoc notions of what is right or wrong in a particular case." The main difference between Jus tice Harlan and the rest of the court, says a former Harlan law clerk, is that he "is confined by what he considers his limited role, which is to apply statutes as he thinks Congress...
Moving with deadly mischief across the Midwest last week was still another herd of galloping gags. Hard on the heels of the whatsits (TIME, May 29), the new yaks cropped up first in newspaper ads and TV spot commercials in Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota. Designed to stamp out the elephant jokes, they had a more professional intent as well, namely to promote Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s classified section. Sample Northwestern ad: "I found intestinal fortitude in the yellow pages. Where? Under Abdominal Supports...
Born. To Heller Halliday Weir, 22, Mary Martin's daughter, who played with mother in Peter Pan, and Anthony Weir, 28, Madison Avenue ad man: their first child, a boy, and Mary's third grandchild; in Manhattan...
...away with club and cutlass, Kronenberger sits back and throws darts, quietly but accurately. Among targets: "taste makers and pace setters" who, he believes, have failed to lead U.S. culture to greatness; the system that has seduced so many good writers and artists into working for corporations and their ad agencies, thus creating "a sort of debased intellectual class who, by way of their knowledge and skill, have become rather the writing hands of business, than outright businessmen"; and the great stress placed on the chap marks of education "with the B.A. a tollgate to a business career, the Ph.D...