Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half a continent away in Bonham, Texas, at the same time, another Washington prime mover was also scrutinizing the near future. From where he stood, Sam Rayburn could see in it a Democratic Congress and another term (his ninth) as Speaker of the House. But he saw as well something...
Monty led off the chorus of complaint with the charge that NATO was "complicated, cumbersome and grossly overstaffed . . . an enormous waste of money and effort." NATO's next Supreme Commander in Europe, he declared, should be French, not American. Yet Europeans are the ones most insistent on a U.S...
Nearly a year had passed since NATO's members agreed "in principle" to the stationing of intermediate range U.S. missiles in Europe, but not a single missile base has been established anywhere on the Continent. NATO's minimum military ambition-a 30-division shield force in Western Europe...
It has been a long time since the first startling wave of African art made its way to Europe and caused a sensation among the ranks of painters and sculptors. Picasso, under the influence of this so-called primitive vision, painted his Demoiselles d' Avignon and learned much from the...
The selection of Primitive Art now at the Museum of Fine Arts is an especially fine one. The pieces represented span the work of North American Indians to the splendid cultures of the southern continent, from the gods of Africa to the fetishes of Oceania.