Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop, but it is saved each time by a fresh burst of vigor and intensity. At novel's end the musicologist returns to the monastery, and there is the promise that he will find God and inner peace. Author Griffin did not go back to a monastery. He chose a 40-acre farm instead. But the act of writing Devil led to a change of church. Once an Episcopalian, Griffin has become a Roman Catholic...
...accepting help for his campaign, how many thousand dollars did it cost the people to have Mr. Truman campaign for Stevenson when he should have been in Washington attending his job ! He was voted to manage the country and not the political campaign of a party man he chose...
...most significant speeches of his campaign, Dwight Eisenhower chose a forum without radio or television, gave a talk untouched by partisan politics. The occasion: the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial dinner, where he spoke at the invitation of New York's Cardinal Spellman. (Governor Stevenson, also invited, had to decline because of campaign schedules.) Eisenhower's subject: the U.S. in the world...
Pittsburgh's Carnegie International is one of the three great biennial shows (with Venice's and Sao Paulo's) that survey and measure contemporary art from all over the world. For the 39th Carnegie, which opened last week, the museum's new director, Gordon Washburn, chose 305 paintings from 24 nations. They make a generally lively show, but one that belies...
...accepted cinema statutes, the hero should get the girl. In every third and a half scene, the moviegoer settles back and breaths, "Ah, now he gets the girl." But, faced with the alternatives of following form or preserving the sanctity of marriage, producers Wald and Krasna chose the latter. The girl married the heavy before the picture begins...