Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of Fascist art censorship, 43-year-old Viani had never dared show his radical variations on the human form before 1945, although for 16 years he plugged away at them in the privacy of his Venice studio, smoothing their voluptuous plaster curves with wire brushes. At the end of World War II, he brought his work out into the open for the first time, won recognition at the big Venice Biennial show last year...
...more than an hour's work, is larded with teen talk (e.g., "beau boy," "corner casbah," "coosome twosome"). Sandwiched in between chit-chat about good grooming, fads and fashions and "date data" is a thick slice of advice. Samples: "How are you going to avoid necking? . . . Simply keep away from the situations that . . . send you into a romantic mood [such as parking] on the shoreline . . . Unless you're absolutely sure how much you can drink safely . . . don't drink on a date." Most of the advice is safe & sound, and many teen-agers who wouldn...
...President's House. She had three sitting rooms, a drawing room, two maids, a cook, a chauffeur and two secretaries. Her new domain stretched out over 400 acres of rolling hills. From the air it looked like a series of Gothic cathedrals with all their spires neatly shorn away. It was a network of pathways that ran under archways, circled a lake, wound among gardens, and threaded through lawns. It was a place of leaded windows and tiny balconies. A mid-campus tower commanded...
Other presidents have found that the nation's alumnae could better use a whole re-education in the matter. To Lynn White of Mills, the big obstacle was that women outlive their husbands. Then they give away their money to their husbands' alma maters. "I go around the country advising women to predecease their husbands," says Mills's president. "We'd do better...
...committee was impressed when Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan marched in with an armful of facts & figures on how well a program of industrialization with U.S. techniques and capital had been working in Latin America. Brannan brushed away the possibility that industrialization of backward nations would only build up competition for U.S. goods. "Only the developed areas," said he, "are good customers. [Developed] countries making up only 11% of the world's population are providing us with more than half of our market...