Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Post-Office Immortal. In his last years, Whistler was racked by debts, and fought a losing battle of telegraphic wits with Oscar Wilde. Whistler's best was the telegram he sent to the church where Wilde held his wedding: FEAR I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU IN...
Author Dunham writes movingly but without bitterness about the struggle of the children to break free of the father, and about the genteel shabbiness of lower-middle-class Negro life. A set piece on the well-calculated emotionalism of a Bible-banging preacher could hardly be done better. And the...
Galbraith praised the results of the American aid policy in Europe, but also blamed that policy indirectly for the government's current dollar loss. So much attention has been devoted to European economics, he explained, that the American financial situation has been somewhat neglected.
Although American foreign aid has been "a great success," in several countries military grants have been wasted, according to John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics. During yesterday's WGBH-TV program "Foreign Aid and Economic Policy," Galbraith also charged that the United States has damaged its reputation by associating with...
The last two lectures of the series, "Poetry and Experience," given by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, have been cancelled because MacLeish is ill.