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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Blueprint. The I.L.G.W.U. was already taking on its distinctive character. The amazing Protocol of Peace, devised by young louis Brandeis to settle the cloakmakers' "Great Revolt" of 1910, was a blueprint years ahead of its time. Its borads of grievances and arbitration were precursors of the WLB and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Little David, the Giant | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Gradually the assembly hopes to thin out some of the blood and muffle the thunder of the average comic rip-roarer. Most conspicuous sample of their influence to date: "Brooklyn," a raggle-taggle Boy Commandos' character with bad grammar and warped diction has been transformed into a junior Brooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Take It from Buzzy | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

The fact that Moscow frowns on modern art too (Pravda calls it "decayed, formalistic, bourgeois") gave Dondero no pause. He concluded his blast with the suggestion that U.S. artists be screened just as lawyers (and Russian artists) are: "Why should our highest art organizations have any different standard of membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Red Plot? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

The story was familiar, at least in outline: Librettist Eric (Let's Make an Opera) Crozier had freely adapted his comic libretto from Guy de Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten's Week | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Died. Harry Davenport, 83, silver-haired grand old man of the stage (he took his first bow at five; had his diamond jubilee as an actor in 1946); in Los Angeles. He had played everything from the Second Gravedigger in Hamlet to Broadway runs opposite Jane Cowl, before switching to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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