Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would the President "counsel officials of the executive branch . . . not to en gage in extreme partisanship?" That is correct, said Ike. Would that include the chairman (New York's Len Hall) of the Republican National Committee? Yes, said the President, it would...
Greek vase painting--the other branch of the dichotomy--was not so significant as sculpture, because the instinctive expressionism which characterized it was not unique...
With all the talk of the "black silence of fear" descending upon the country, and with suppression of unorthodoxy becoming the order of the day, the final outcome of the Big Norwalk Red-hunt is a triumph of good sense. When the press announced that the Norwalk branch of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was reporting people under suspicion of "subversive" action to the FBI, it seemed for a while that telling tattle on one's neighbor would become the new national rage--despite J. Edgar Hoover's warning that the worst way to fight domestic Communism is for uninformed...
Today, laws generally originate in the executive branch of state government. The governor is a planner; his job is to build a legislative program and guide it through the General Court. Aware of how little he can do in two years, he must start his second term electioneering right away. This makes great demands on his time and energy, especially in a state as closely contested as Massachusetts. The two-year term is a handicap to the voter as well. Too often election time finds most of the governor's program still incomplete, leaving the public without sufficient evidence...
Balanchine had also stuffed his show with property magic. As Clara watched through dreaming eyes, the family Christmas tree began to grow onstage, heaving itself up out of the floor branch by bigger branch until its top disappeared in the flies. The window of the room broadened and heightened until the scene passed through it, outdoors into a snow-smothered pine forest, and a realistic blizzard of white confetti blew on the Snowflake Waltz. When the curtain fell, first-nighters broke into happy, rousing applause. After a dozen curtain calls for the cast, Choreographer Balanchine came out for a slightly...