Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department spelled out the reasons last week why UNO could not admit Franco Spain. Fifteen documents recovered from Axis secret diplomatic files proved that Francisco Franco had been an even closer ally of Hitler than the world had supposed...
Greek ships brought back good ideas from every Mediterranean port. The idea of the Griffon (600 B.C., see cut) came from Asia Minor. Egypt contributed to the cold, finely modeled formalism of Youth from Andros. But the linear energy of The Cottenham Relief, a horse and horseman, was closer to real life than anything the Egyptians produced (see cuts). To the Greeks, gods were fairly human, and human strength and grace were godly characteristics. At the roots their religion remained anthropocentric-man was the center of the universe and the measure of all things...
...Grande Valse Brillante in A Minor, Opus 34, is a waltz only by virtue of its three-four time; its tempo (lento) brings it closer to the dark introspective nocturnes and preludes. To Horowitz, however, a waltz must be a waltz; by speeding it up to almost twice its generally accepted tempo, he gives it a ballroom flavor it was never meant to have...
...said they thought political union a fine idea, but "not yet." Quebec's free-thinking Senator Telesphore Damien Bouchard believed in "closer and closer relations." John L. McDougall, Queen's University economist, neatly sidestepped: "Weight of isolationist opinion in the United States is [such] that I think the question inopportune. . . ." AILothers replied with a flat negative...
...feit free to say many things that her husband did not. As New Dealers the Clappers often admired Roosevelt, often felt disappointed in him, supported him except in 1940, when Raymond-but not Olive-switched to Willkie. Both of the Clappers felt closer to their fellow Kansan Alf Landon (whom Clapper opposed jn 1936) than to all the Roosevelts put together...