Word: ately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Dada retrospective show first opened at a Paris Left Bank gallery, the spirit of the good old days was sadly lacking. The show did not take place in a cellar with the lights turned out. Nobody ate matches, meowed or loudly counted the pearls of visiting dowagers. No Dadaist proclaimed to the public: "Before going down among you to pull out your decaying teeth, before shellacking you with passion, we warn you: we are murderers." There weren't even any fights...
...great 19th century ground swell of popular discontent swirled about real grievances in the U.S. rather than frothing up towards imaginary cures. Populism, which wanted cheaper money, Progressivism, which wanted cheaper everything, the Knights of Labor with their focus on the dinner pail and the dignity of those who ate from it, all expressed the aspirations of Americans who remained hard-headed even when hard up. Even "Big Bill" Haywood's I.W.W. was "practical" in its own simpleminded, bloody-minded way. Author Draper never loses sight of the fact that early capitalism cooked a brutal brew...
...Fraina was out of the C.P.. was later hounded by false charges of espionage and embezzlement. He spent ten years as respected Professor Lewis Corey at Antioch College (he died in 1953). Fraina was one of those children whom the revolution not only devours but forgets it ever ate, and this sort of thing, Draper wistfully notes, is tough on a historian...
...flying inspection tour of the drought-parched Southwest in January, Stanley Walker, onetime Manhattan newsman, now a Texas rancher, turned out a dismal preview of the scene for his old newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune (1956 "was the year the windmills pumped air ... the termites ate the onions"). Last week Walker wrote again, this time with refreshing jubilance. Said he in the Trib: "Texas is turning green . . . like some beautiful, bewildering mirage . . . The reaction to the President's drought-study tour was friendly . . . but the comment was cautious . . . And then the rains came-days on end of drizzle...
...common man had found champions whose influence petered out after World War I. Prosperity left the liberals crying in the wilderness, and businessmen plundered and ruined the economic system. The big boys were so greedy that they not only killed the goose that laid the golden egg but ate it without offering the ordinary man so much as a bone. The country was on the verge of revolution when along came F.D.R. He didn't know much about economics, but he was nice to liberals such as Rexford Tugwell, who proclaimed that "the future is becoming visible in Russia...