Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointed a six-man National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs, headed by Secretary of State Herter and to include Brother Milton Eisenhower, to study troubled U.S. relations with Latin America, develop "useful ideas," and promote "wider understanding" (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...remembering their parents' talk of the hard poverty in their old-country village, the two brothers-who had never been there-decided on a gift for San Marco. Everyone in the village would be given 25 shares of Bank of America stock, worth $1,200, with annual dividends running to $80 or more. Said Joseph: "We felt that giving them stock, so they would get a dividend check every quarter, would put joy in everyone's heart." Argued Victor: "Then we thought that because of America's trouble with Russia . . . this might be a pretty good move...
...produce a living art, instead of a passive acceptance of "great names," America must separate its high and middle cultures, MacDonald warned. "Let the majority eavesdrop if they wish," he said, "but their tastes in art should be ignored...
Good grounds do exist, however, for holding that the J.B. boosters tend to think of the Saturday Review as the house organ of higher culture in America. For it was from there, a year ago last May, that the first salvo of literary enthusiasm was discharged, by the noted American poet and fearless antagonist of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, John Ciardi. "Archibald MacLeish's J.B. is great poetry, great drama, and--as far as my limitations permit me to sense it--great stagecraft," he proclaimed in the opening sentence of his article, "The Birth of a Classic." A prefatory note explained...
...Ciardi had misgivings about the ability of commercial old lowbrow America to recognize true Greatness overnight. "J.B., it must be added, is strong stuff," he warned. "Too strong, one knows, for Broadway success this season or next." But eventually all would be well, he concluded: "And yet Broadway will come to it in time, because it must, because great imagination and great talent cannot be denied forever. Meanwhile, Yale is preparing it for production, and certainly the summer theatres and the college groups throughout the country will have found a new star forever. For J.B. adds a dimension...