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...admits that he once thought Monet "just a bad example." today has deep admiration for the vigor of his brushwork, his near-abstract paintings of nature, and his suggestive ambiguity of object and reflection.* Putting the final stamp of approval on Monet for the avant-garde is Manhattan Critic Clement Greenberg, who in praising Monet's "free, calligraphic brush-work and loose, tonal delineation of form," now confirms that much modern U.S. painting needs a new name: "abstract impressionism...
...disciple of Clement Attlee, he was elected Leader of the Parliamenatry Labor party in December, 1955, on Earl Attlee's resignation. When Commons is in session he commutes to London from his Victorian house in Hampstead (he rents a five-room apartment upstairs), usually picking up a friend on the London outskirts. Red-faced and "looking as though he's been working too hard under artificial light," according to one of his friends, he has more or less given up dancing, which used to be one of his favorite relaxations. His recent writings have consisted primarily of party pamphlets, although...
Gaitskell was elected to head the Labor opposition in 1955, succeeding Clement Attlee. He entered Parliament in 1945, and rose quickly to become Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1947, Minister of State for Economic Affairs in 1950, and Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Washington, he jumped to the side of Wayne Morse in Oregon. Then in California he multiplied the tactic by importing the services of five silver-tongued, big-name Democratic officeholders-New Jersey's Governor Robert Mey-ner, Pennsylvania's Governor George Leader, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement and Senator Albert Gore, and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. All but Clement appeared with Stevenson on a nationally televised panel discussion of the Government's role in public health (Stevenson would increase it). Later, in an operation dubbed the "Flying Front-Porch Campaign," the five fanned...
...step long advocated by Bevan. The conference also demanded abolition of all forms of race discrimination and segregation in Britain and her colonies, and laid down proposals for the eventual termination of British colonialism. In sum, the party, while veering leftward from the course set by Former Leader Clement Attlee, was still traveling to the right of its rugged radical...