Word: boise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puritan into Purist. A painter friend of Hopper's, Guy Pene du Bois, pinpointed his genius way back in 1931: "Hopper denies none of the Anglo-Saxon attributes which are so strongly planted in his character. He has built an esthetic which expresses them directly. He has turned the...
The other two women with professorial status are Cora A. Du Bois, professor of Anthropology, and Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchin, professor of Astronomy.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois did more than any other Negro to challenge Washington's leadership and to give democracy a meaning in the twentieth century that conforms to that of Douglass in 1889. In The Souls of Black Folk, 1903, he gave a restrained but trenchant criticism of the...
Since the end of slavery, Negroes on the whole have followed the advice of Du Bois and others to seek their goals "by every civilized and peaceful method." This is perhaps one reason why they have invalidated in large measure the famous dictum of William Graham Sumner that "Stateways can...
A Streetcar Named Desire, the program's piece de resistance, revealed the company's great aptitude for the modern ballet-dance. Miss Kaye, who is today's formost exponent of dramatic roles, danced the part of Blanche Du Bois with all the neurotic and confused passion that the role embodies...