Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Class of '49 can be discussed in other terms. As the speaker will probably make very clear this morning, the Class of '49 is an unusual one; but it owes its distinction to more than the fact that some 40 percent are being graduated with honors, or that the only summa cum laude is now away on her honeymoon. This is the Class that was nurtured on joint instruction, brought up in classrooms where the woman in the seat on the left was in here proper and rightful place. The Class of '49 was among those officially admitted...
Trying to Be Clear. Hurd keeps a changing show of other men's art in his studio (last week it was pictures of Picasso's ceramics), says that he has "no quarrel with any school of painting." At 45, he describes himself as "looking inside, trying to be clear as to what I want to say. There are a lot of young painters coming along now that seem to have no idea about that. They either feel they must paint every hair on nature's lip or deny the whole works...
...miss few of the hairs. Using the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting on wood panels, Hurd confines himself to precise portraits of people and places, dramatized by isolated figures, long shadows and cold, gleaming colors. The paintings that tell of the barren hills and washes, the deserts and clear bright light of New Mexico are as knowing and sincere as an honest man's praise of his own family...
...actual fact, the Russians can do nothing about Bishop Dibelius short of using naked force; he can only be legally deposed by those who elected him-his fellow churchmen. His fellows lost no time last week making their own position clear. At a meeting of all Evangelical priests of Berlin and Brandenburg province, they voted their support of their Bishop to the last syllable. Said an official announcement: "As Dr. Dibelius intends to remain head of the Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg, he is hardly likely to discharge himself, and today's meeting shows that there...
...widow (Ann Sothern) who gives him a job in her roadside restaurant. After several reels of platonic romance and irresponsibility, the lotus-eating judge remembers that he is a married man and boards a train for Boston, intending to get a divorce. But by this time it is clear that he is actually going to resume the duties of a responsible citizen...