Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a good number of the returns in (see below,), and with World Figure Skating Champion Dick Button still to compete, the U.S. was well on its way this week to its best showing ever in the Winter Olympics. If there was a sour note, a group of Russian "observers...
Phillips also noticed a tendency of the voters to accept corruption as a necessary evil. "Philadelphia has long been corrupt," he stated. "As a matter of fact, it has been badly off since the time of Lincoln Steffins, who called it "corrupt and contented."
Last week, in his first London show in 15 years, Dali tried again with a crucifixion entitled Christ of St. John of the Cross. In his latest painting, Dali had cleared away most of the surrealist bric-a-brac, and contented himself with a spectacular downward view of Christ on...
But Plan E in Cambridge proved a startling success. Cambridge government was no different from Lowell's or Waltham's. It was contented and corrupt when Plan E was adopted; its major had just gone to jail for accepting a 30 percent kickback from an architect who did city work...
Until a Russian-born tenor named Maxim Karolik came along, the first half of the 19th Century was rated a mediocre period in U.S. art. American painting at that time showed little of the imagination and enterprise that marked the nation's westward expansion; most artists contented themselves with...