Word: americanas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copies; after a long illness; in Manhattan. The tiny, supercharged daughter of a Jewish businessman in Ottumwa, Iowa, she decided to "show" the town's anti-Semites by becoming famous. And so she did, never marrying, pouring everything into her writing as she mined the rich lodes of Americana she found all across the country-in Chicago (1924's So Big), the Mississippi River (1926's Show Boat), Oklahoma (1929's Cimarron), upstate New York (1941's Saratoga Trunk), Texas (1952's Giant) and Alaska (1958's Ice Palace). Critics sometimes called...
Still as lean and trim as a ship of the line, Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, of Burma, 67, sailed into Manhattan to fire off a salute to such old friends as Darryl F. Zanuck, Spyros P. Skouras and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at the Americana Hotel. The earl first fell in with moviefolk back in the 1930s, when they donated movies to entertain the crews on Royal Navy warships, so it was only natural to return the favor by helping out at a fund-raising drive for show business's Variety Clubs International charities. Queen...
SENATOR MORSE: It is my judgment that the warp and woof of that doctrine ["Pax Americana Technocrata"] has woven our foreign policy rug. I think it pretty much outlines the foreign policy of this country today, and you take your principles and apply them to any analysis of our foreign policy and I think they are all in that...
Looking Ahead. Sandwiched between the daily barrage of riots, wars and demonstrations on the Cronkite show, Kuralt's slices of Americana are like a two-minute ceasefire. "It's refreshing to us," he says, "to realize that the country isn't in flames. It turns out that there's a lot of good going on." Viewers agree, and the experimental feature has been extended through next month...
...professors and one student will headline a forum entitled "The Making of the Pax Americana" at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall. The three are Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. professor; Gladstone Ntlabati, GSAS student from South Africa; and James Petras, professor at Penn State...